Suspicion: An Iranian cyber attack caused false alarms in Jerusalem and Eilat
The national cyber array instructed local authorities to take protective measures due to the suspicion that a cyber incident at the interface of public address systems to municipalities triggered the non-Home Front Command alarm in the capital and the southern city.
It was not immediately clear who was behind the attack, but it was investigated whether they were Iranian hackers
Yinon Ben Shoshan
20/06/2022
Monday, 20 June 2022, 07:21 Updated: 10:28
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In the video: Hillel Yaffe Medical Center returns to regular activity about a month after the cyber attack (Photo: Hillel Yaffe Medical Center)
Suspicion that a cyber attack caused a false alarm in Jerusalem and Eilat - this morning (Monday) the national cyber system reported.
Following the incident, the array last night instructed local authorities to protect local public address systems.
The attack was not on Home Front Command systems and it was not said who was behind it, but it was investigated whether these were Iranian hackers.
"There is a significant gap between the State of Israel's excellent cyber defense capabilities on infrastructure that it defines as critical and the deficient protection in the protection of other civilian infrastructures," says Yoram HaCohen, CEO of the Israeli Internet Association.
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Tzipi Livni and members of the defense establishment: Iranian hackers attacked the mailboxes of senior Israeli officials
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Suspicion: The attack triggered the alarm.
Public address system, illustration (Photo: ShutterStock)
Omri Wexler, a researcher at the Center for Cyber Research at Tel Aviv University who will take part in the annual cyber week, commented on the incident and said that "the fact that the attackers focused on the systems of Eilat, and not let's Tel Aviv, In a complex and well-planned campaign long ago - the hackers attacked where they found loopholes.
"" An incident of activating alarms as happened yesterday can create panic among the public who do not distinguish between a cyber attack that could endanger the country, The public, "said Cypress expert Mae Brooks Kempler in an interview with Walla! Technology."And the scenario according to which it is a matter of proving the enemy's ability to disrupt the alarm systems during a war in the physical space."
"Designed to create panic among the public" (Photo: ShutterStock)
Last week, the Israeli cyber security company Check Point published an Iranian attack on senior Israeli officials, which began in December 2021, including former Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni.
As part of the attack, the hackers broke into the email box of a senior reserve general who served in a sensitive position, impersonated him and corresponded on his behalf with senior officials in order to get them to open various documents.
Check Point updated the security forces in Israel on the attack.
According to the study, Iranian attackers conducted e-mail correspondence with senior Israeli officials after breaking into several e-mail addresses and impersonating the same entities.
The correspondence included sending documents including an invitation to a conference abroad and articles on the Iranian nuclear program - and these required the victims to type in their email password.
Iranian cyber attack.
Tzipi Livni (Photo: Reuven Castro)
During December, the former foreign minister received several emails in Hebrew from the same general in the reserve, in which she asked to read an article he wrote about security incidents in 2021. After several emails in which he urged Livni to open the file with her email password, Livni turned to the reservist
"Livni forwarded the e-mail correspondence to us, from which we tracked down the senders and files and found out how broad the move was (publishing Livni's name matches her)," Check Point said.
They said that in those months to last week, the Iranian attackers managed to get their hands on a private email correspondence between the head of a very central research institute in Israel and the former US ambassador to Israel, and used it to create further correspondence during which they impersonated the ambassador using another email.
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