Hackers are going to war and attacking governments in Palestine and Israel; to understand

The conflict between Israel and the terrorist organization Hamas, which started last weekend, has turned into cyberspace. Hacker groups are protesting Attacks on both the Israeli government and Palestinian structures.

The war began last Saturday (07) with a surprise invasion of Israeli territory by Hamas and has continued until now. While terrorists claim to have captured more than 100 hostages, the Jewish state is launching missiles into neighboring areas.

In this intense humanitarian conflict that has already left hundreds dead on both sides, a cybersecurity expert tracked and created a timeline showing the cyber actions of various agents.

According to him, so far it has been possible to detect the activities of groups such as ThreatSec (affiliation unknown), Anonymous Sudan (ally of Russia), Killnet (ally of Russia) and Cyber ​​​​Av3ngers (ally of Iran).

The first attack, which the expert identified as Julian B. followed on LinkedIn, was carried out by Anonymous Sudan. Cell of the world’s most famous hacktivist group targeted Israeli emergency alert systems and journalistic broadcasting Jerusalem Post.

Meanwhile, Cyber ​​Av3ngers attacked two companies involved in Israel’s power grid, Killnet attempted to hack Israeli government websites, and Ghosts of Palestine challenged hackers to attack the private infrastructure of the Jewish government and the United States.

The “other side of cyberwar” included groups like ThreatSec, which claimed to have compromised an internet structure in the Gaza Strip, and Indian hacking activists who did so. They are said to have attacked Palestinian websites.

At least two other associations, Garuna and TeamHDP, revealed this online: It targets the pages of Hamas and the Islamic University of Gaza.

DDoS attacks

According to website Security WeekMost of the attacks in the recent war between Israel and Hamas It happened via DDoS method. “Distributed Denial of Service”, which translates as “Distributed Denial of Service”, attempts to interrupt the operation of a website or service by flooding the access page.

Killnet and Anonymous Sudan have carried out famous attacks targeting large companies in the past. Microsoft, X (formerly Twitter), Telegram, Lockheed Martin and even the United States government were already among the victims of DDoS.