{"id":18508,"date":"2022-03-15T14:10:20","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T22:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2022\/03\/15\/news-12241\/"},"modified":"2022-03-15T14:10:20","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T22:10:20","slug":"news-12241","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2022\/03\/15\/news-12241\/","title":{"rendered":"DDoS barrage against Israel described as the &#8220;largest ever&#8221; cyberattack its faced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2022 21:38:32 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Several government websites in Israel\u2014those using the <code>.gov.il<\/code> domain\u2014were inaccessible after a <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/glossary\/ddos\/\">distributed denial of service (DDoS)<\/a> attack hit Israel&#8217;s telecommunication provider, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cellcom_(Israel)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Cellcom<\/a>. NetBlocks, a network disruption watchdog, initially detected <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/netblocks\/status\/1503445919987306497\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">&#8220;a significant disruption&#8221;<\/a> aimed at the provider, which appeared to have also affected another provider, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bezeq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Bezeq<\/a>, before the Israeli National Cyber Directorate confirmed the cyberattack in a tweet.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In the past few hours, a DDoS attack against a communications provider was identified. As a result, access to several websites, among them government websites, was denied for a short time. As of now, all of the websites have returned to normal activity.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Israelgov?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Israelgov<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Cyber Israel (@Israel_Cyber) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Israel_Cyber\/status\/1503478674515017739?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 14, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/.premium-israeli-government-sites-crash-in-cyberattack-1.10674433\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">According to Haaretz<\/a>, an Israeli newspaper, websites of the health, interior, justice, and welfare ministries were taken offline. The website of the Office of the Prime Minister was also affected. The newspaper&#8217;s source is also quoted saying that the incident was &#8220;the largest-ever cyberattack carried out against Israel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ram Levi, CEO of Konfidas, a cybersecurity consulting firm, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/breaking-news\/article-701269\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">told Jerusalem Post<\/a> that the cyberattack started at 6:15 PM and ended at 7:30 PM, declaring Tehran hackers behind the attack.<\/p>\n<p>However, Mike Sexton, a cyber and Middle East policy expert, called the attack &#8220;unsophisticated, but something that nonetheless requires significant resources.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Israel and Iran have recently been engaged in a low-level cyber tit-for-tat, so Iran is an obvious source to attribute, but we should not jump to conclusions,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/mena\/2022\/03\/14\/several-israeli-government-websites-down-reports\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Sexton told The National<\/a>, &#8220;Iran possesses much more sophisticated capabilities, so I think it would be unusual for them to use this sort of primitive attack.<\/p>\n<p>Sexton also asserted that this cyberattack is likely linked to the crisis in Ukraine, given that Israel has just joined other countries in sanctioning Russia after remaining neutral. &#8220;This kind of attack is very characteristic of Russian patriotic hackers. We saw them use this same kind of attack against the Estonian government in 2006,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/security-world\/2022\/03\/ddos-barage-against-israel-described-as-the-largest-ever-cyberattack-its-faced\/\">DDoS barrage against Israel described as the &#8220;largest ever&#8221; cyberattack its faced<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\">Malwarebytes Labs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/security-world\/2022\/03\/ddos-barage-against-israel-described-as-the-largest-ever-cyberattack-its-faced\/\" target=\"bwo\" >https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/feed\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2022 21:38:32 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Israeli government websites crashed during a short bit powerful DDoS attack.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/security-world\/2022\/03\/ddos-barage-against-israel-described-as-the-largest-ever-cyberattack-its-faced\/\">DDoS barrage against Israel described as the &#8220;largest ever&#8221; cyberattack its faced<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\">Malwarebytes Labs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[10488,10378],"tags":[25371,20670,10514,14189,25372,3149,25373,25374,25375,25213,15791,10497],"class_list":["post-18508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malwarebytes","category-security","tag-bezeq","tag-cellcom","tag-ddos","tag-distributed-denial-of-service-attack","tag-iranian-hackers","tag-israel","tag-israeli-national-cyber-directorate","tag-mike-sexton","tag-ram-levi","tag-russia-ukraine","tag-russian-hackers","tag-security-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}