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Cyberwarfare in Israel has reached a new level.
Cybersecurity threats in Israel are intensifying amid the war between Israel and Hamas. The incidents include two hacked smart billboards that briefly displayed pro-Hamas content, and a cyberattack on a college that resulted in the publication of hundreds of thousands of personal records.
Hackers gained access to two smart billboards in or near Tel Aviv for a few minutes on Thursday and "were able to replace the commercials with anti-Israel content in support of Hamas," said Gil Messing, chief of staff at Tel Aviv-based cybersecurity firm Check Point Software Technologies. He added that the video mainly showed the Israeli flag under fire, footage from Gaza and other similar materials.
"We had to open the network for a few minutes, and they probably immediately broke in at that point," said Eilon Rozman, CEO of CTV Media Israel, the company that owns these billboards.
Most of the cybersecurity threats that Check Point has noticed since Saturday are related to either site defacement or DDoS attacks. Messing told CNBC that the billboard incidents are "very minor... compared to everything else that's going on here."
Check Point actively monitors the actions of hacker groups on the dark web and on the Telegram platform. According to information from one of the messages in Telegram, threats of attacks on key infrastructure elements, including water supply systems, were identified. In particular, the threats were addressed to Mekorot, Israel's largest water management agency.
"More than 40 groups are currently trying or saying they are trying to carry out cyberattacks," Messing said, adding that such threats are not uncommon.
"These people make threats, but they don't necessarily carry out their threats... Motivation is more about creating fear and discomfort, rather than causing significant damage."
This week, the biggest cyber attack was the hacking of the system of the Ono Academic College near Tel Aviv. On Monday, a hacking group purporting to be from Jordan posted about 250,000 employee, student and alumni accounts on Telegram. In response, the college was forced to shut down its systems.
"Cyber attack experts have discovered a leak of information from our computer system. We are addressing this issue, are in contact with the national cyber authority, and have also notified the authority responsible for protecting privacy, " the college said in a statement.
Cybersecurity threats in Israel are intensifying amid the war between Israel and Hamas. The incidents include two hacked smart billboards that briefly displayed pro-Hamas content, and a cyberattack on a college that resulted in the publication of hundreds of thousands of personal records.
Hackers gained access to two smart billboards in or near Tel Aviv for a few minutes on Thursday and "were able to replace the commercials with anti-Israel content in support of Hamas," said Gil Messing, chief of staff at Tel Aviv-based cybersecurity firm Check Point Software Technologies. He added that the video mainly showed the Israeli flag under fire, footage from Gaza and other similar materials.
"We had to open the network for a few minutes, and they probably immediately broke in at that point," said Eilon Rozman, CEO of CTV Media Israel, the company that owns these billboards.
Most of the cybersecurity threats that Check Point has noticed since Saturday are related to either site defacement or DDoS attacks. Messing told CNBC that the billboard incidents are "very minor... compared to everything else that's going on here."
Check Point actively monitors the actions of hacker groups on the dark web and on the Telegram platform. According to information from one of the messages in Telegram, threats of attacks on key infrastructure elements, including water supply systems, were identified. In particular, the threats were addressed to Mekorot, Israel's largest water management agency.
"More than 40 groups are currently trying or saying they are trying to carry out cyberattacks," Messing said, adding that such threats are not uncommon.
"These people make threats, but they don't necessarily carry out their threats... Motivation is more about creating fear and discomfort, rather than causing significant damage."
This week, the biggest cyber attack was the hacking of the system of the Ono Academic College near Tel Aviv. On Monday, a hacking group purporting to be from Jordan posted about 250,000 employee, student and alumni accounts on Telegram. In response, the college was forced to shut down its systems.
"Cyber attack experts have discovered a leak of information from our computer system. We are addressing this issue, are in contact with the national cyber authority, and have also notified the authority responsible for protecting privacy, " the college said in a statement.
