Hackers for Hire Hit Both Sides in Israel-Hamas Conflict

DDoS for hire and live attacks hit both sides as cyber campaigns continue.

Hacktivists are trading cyberattacks on both sides of the Israel-Hamas conflict.
According to detections by
ReliaQuest
, several pro-Russian hacktivist groups have identified Israeli targets, and Anonymous Sudans official Telegram channel is discussing how to undermine Israels
Iron Dome defense
, a mobile air defense system that intercepts and destroys short-range rockets and artillery shells.
Anonymous Sudan also named the Israeli government in online discussions as a main target and said it had obtained unspecified zero-day vulnerabilities from Romania to use in anti-Israel attacks.
The
AnonGhost hacktivist group
said it had managed to breach the Red Alert app to send messages like The Nuclear Bomb is coming and Death to Israel.
Chris Morgan, senior cyber threat intelligence analyst at ReliaQuest, says the discussion on Telegram channels should be taken seriously even though their users intentions and activities are often not verified, or reflect the true nature of a group.
The Krypton network has also offered to sell its distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) capabilities to hacktivists wishing to target Israeli organizations. Morgan says Krypton is a known DDoS-for-hire botnet that allegedly includes several features to bypass DDoS mitigation services.
It is realistically possible that the group saw an opportunity amidst the rush to target Israel, viewing it as a chance to make additional sales, Morgan says.
However, the attacks are not all one way, as ThreatSec
reportedly compromised
the Palestinian Internet services provider AlfaNet, with literally every server owned by Alfanet shut down. The group
claimed its original goal
was just to get a hold of some infrastructure, but it gained full control of more than 5,000 servers in the Gaza region. Statistics show a
decline in Internet connectivity
in Gaza over the past few days.
Since the attacks by Hamas began, cybercrime groups have shifted their activities toward the Middle East. More than a dozen threat groups declared their intention to
launch disruptive attacks
against Israel, Palestine, and their supporters. The
Jerusalem Post was taken down by a cyberattack
this week.
Morgan says Israel is regularly targeted by cyber threats — such as when the Russia-aligned Ragnar Locker group hit the
Mayanei Hayeshua Medical Center in Bnei Brak
this summer — often by Iranian APTs. Additionally, hacktivist groups frequently target Israel in response to the ongoing conflict with Hamas.

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