Israel’s covert external security agency Mossad & its PM Benjamin Netanyahu are just 2 of the dozens of critical targets under attack in that country by the hacktivist group Anonymous Sudan.
The relentless attacks against Israel began in the early morning of Wed., just after 2am ET, according to the group’s official Telegram channel.
Over 40 organisations supporting Israel’s infrastructure have been labelled victims in the attacks.
Infrastructure
“Infrastructure of the Israeli has been down because of what they did to Palestine,” the threat players posted along with an invitation for others to join in on the attack.
Several critical Govt. services for Israeli citizens were claimed, including the official Govt. website of Israel, the Israeli Police, & KAN, the Israel Broadcasting Corporation.
The politically motivated gang was also able to take down the website of PM Benjamin Netanyahu , the Israeli Security Agency, & the nation’s elite counterintelligence & special operations agency known as the Mossad.
Two emergency alert services that warn citizens of incoming rocket attacks were also targeted.
Others Targets
Others targets include at least 7 financial institutions, 5 healthcare facilities, 4 universities, 9 utilities & telecommunications companies, 3 Israeli airlines, & 1 airport.
“We are still attacking the Mossad and the Israel security agency,” the hacktivists posted on Telegram at noon.
Threat intelligence platform @FalconFeedsio confirmed the 2 sites were down at the time on Twitter.
Also, PM Netanyahu’s personal site was down Wed. afternoon & returning a 509-error message “bandwidth limit exceeded.”
Many other website addresses of organisations claimed in the attacks were still loading by late in the day.
Sergei Lavrov
Wed. afternoon, the Jerusalem Post – also claimed by Anonymous Sudan in the mass hack – reported that Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov publicly criticised both the US & Israel for failing to end the Israel-Palestinian conflict.
Not necessarily the most original threat players, the group titled Wed.’s targeted campaign, F**K Israel, mimicking fellow pro-Russian hacker gang KillNet, who last week titled a cyber campaign against the North American Alliance as F**K NATO.
DDoS
Anonymous Sudan & Killnet have been known to work together in the past against common victims, & both groups favour Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks as their weapon of choice.
Last month, the 2 gangs co-ordinated their cyber power to target several Australian schools as payback for supporting Ukraine.
Security experts have long suspected that Anonymous Sudan may ultimately be a front for Russian-backed hackers.
On Tues., Anonymous Sudan claimed to have hacked about a dozen US hospitals as payback for interfering in the “internal affairs of other nations,” specifically referencing the recent chaos in Sudan in another post.
Valentine’s Day
Earlier this year, Anonymous Sudan claimed responsibility for 2 successful Valentine’s Day attacks targeting Sweden as retaliation for the Jan. burning of a Koran during a public protest in Stockholm.
SAS Airlines & the Swedish national public television station SVT were both knocked offline for hours during the February 14 attacks.
The gang’s also warned its 27,000 plus Telegram subscribers to ignore a fake @ AnonymousSudan01 account which popped up on Twitter in the wake of the Wed’s attacks.
In the past 3 months alone, Israel proves to be the most targeted nation among pro-religious hacktivist groups, according to the latest analysis by cyber-security firm Radware.
