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More than 80 hacker groups are digitally bombing Israeli targets.
According to Israeli media, citing local Colonel Rachel Dembinsky, commander of the IDF's Computing and Information Systems Center( IDF), the Israeli Defense Forces have prevented about 3 billion cyberattacks since last fall.
Dembinsky is responsible for the IT infrastructure of the Israeli army, including the protection of Intranet, cloud systems, data processing and public sites. At the IT for the IDF conference in Rishon Lezion, Dembinsky said that the increase in the number of threats to Israel's military systems began after the terrorist attack on October 7.
"I got a call in the morning and thought there was a malfunction in the alert system," Dembinsky recalls. "After realizing that this wasn't a malfunction, but a massive cyberattack, I put on my uniform and drove to the base, where we started going into emergency mode."
According to Dembinski, recent cyber attacks on the IDF involved operating systems that are critical to the operation of the army, such as those used by ground forces to coordinate the exchange of information in real time. Although she did not disclose details of the attacks, she noted that billions of them were blocked.
Israel as a whole has faced a sharp increase in the number of cyber attacks since the beginning of the military confrontation with Palestine, said Gil Messing, chief of staff at Check Point Software. "The number of attacks in general has more than doubled. So much so that now the average Israeli organization is subjected to cyber attacks more than 2,200 times a week, " the expert explained.
"This is mainly due to politically motivated hacker groups. We track more than 80 such groups that engage in a variety of malicious activities, from defacing and DDoS to extortion and data destruction," Messing said.
Messing believes that cyber attacks are a clear part of any military conflict. Moreover, in wartime, ordinary financially motivated hackers do not go anywhere, who also attack Israeli companies, like any other companies around the world. Given this fact, the average number of attacks on Israel is now almost twice the global average, Messing said.
And while many local businesses have already improved their security measures in response to the growing threat, at least as many more businesses — including government and law enforcement-are still being left behind.
Kobi Menashe, head of Leadership and Spectrum Protection at the Defense Division of the National Cyber Directorate of Israel (INCD), said in a separate panel at the IT for the IDF conference that 139 of the 259 local governments in Israel are still in a "very bad cyber situation."
"While hackers are constantly working to attack Israeli organizations, many defenders are not acting quickly enough," Messing concluded. "This leads to an increase in the number of successful attacks that occur every day."
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According to Israeli media, citing local Colonel Rachel Dembinsky, commander of the IDF's Computing and Information Systems Center( IDF), the Israeli Defense Forces have prevented about 3 billion cyberattacks since last fall.
Dembinsky is responsible for the IT infrastructure of the Israeli army, including the protection of Intranet, cloud systems, data processing and public sites. At the IT for the IDF conference in Rishon Lezion, Dembinsky said that the increase in the number of threats to Israel's military systems began after the terrorist attack on October 7.
"I got a call in the morning and thought there was a malfunction in the alert system," Dembinsky recalls. "After realizing that this wasn't a malfunction, but a massive cyberattack, I put on my uniform and drove to the base, where we started going into emergency mode."
According to Dembinski, recent cyber attacks on the IDF involved operating systems that are critical to the operation of the army, such as those used by ground forces to coordinate the exchange of information in real time. Although she did not disclose details of the attacks, she noted that billions of them were blocked.
Israel as a whole has faced a sharp increase in the number of cyber attacks since the beginning of the military confrontation with Palestine, said Gil Messing, chief of staff at Check Point Software. "The number of attacks in general has more than doubled. So much so that now the average Israeli organization is subjected to cyber attacks more than 2,200 times a week, " the expert explained.
"This is mainly due to politically motivated hacker groups. We track more than 80 such groups that engage in a variety of malicious activities, from defacing and DDoS to extortion and data destruction," Messing said.
Messing believes that cyber attacks are a clear part of any military conflict. Moreover, in wartime, ordinary financially motivated hackers do not go anywhere, who also attack Israeli companies, like any other companies around the world. Given this fact, the average number of attacks on Israel is now almost twice the global average, Messing said.
And while many local businesses have already improved their security measures in response to the growing threat, at least as many more businesses — including government and law enforcement-are still being left behind.
Kobi Menashe, head of Leadership and Spectrum Protection at the Defense Division of the National Cyber Directorate of Israel (INCD), said in a separate panel at the IT for the IDF conference that 139 of the 259 local governments in Israel are still in a "very bad cyber situation."
"While hackers are constantly working to attack Israeli organizations, many defenders are not acting quickly enough," Messing concluded. "This leads to an increase in the number of successful attacks that occur every day."
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