Cyberattacks - Islamic World News

The twelve‑day cyber war between Iran and Israel (June 13–24) began with Operation Rising Lion, leading to a 700 percent surge in cyberattacks against Israeli infrastructure. Unit 8200, responsible for SIGINT, codebreaking, and cyber warfare, played a central role in this confrontation. Since the 1950s, this unit has evolved into one of the world’s most advanced cyber military divisions, with its alumni later founding major companies such as Check Point, CyberArk, and Palo Alto Networks.

A recent report has exposed an Arabic-language religious app that was, in reality, a covert surveillance tool developed by the Zionist regime to infiltrate Palestinian users’ devices and extract sensitive data. This operation relied on social engineering and cultural-religious camouflage, underscoring the urgent need for stronger cybersecurity awareness and tighter scrutiny of suspicious software.

In recent decades, both overt and covert tensions between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Israeli regime have escalated into a new level of strategic complexity and confrontation. Israel’s renewed attacks ranging from precision strikes and cyber operations to targeted assassinations of key commanders, demonstrate its advantage in intelligence, modern air power, electronic warfare, and a strong alliance with the United States. This report, based on studies from RAND Corporation, CSIS, the Washington Institute, and IISS, first explores Israel’s core advantages and then proposes suitable defensive countermeasures.

Technical teams from the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology of the Yemeni government (Sanaa) successfully repelled and neutralized a cyber attack carried out by a Saudi hacker group known as “S4uD1Pwnz.” This incident marks the third foreign cyber attack on Yemeni websites. The previous two attacks were executed by a hacker group based in Iraqi Kurdistan.

ISWNews Analysis Group: Information of hundreds of Israeli soldiers including name, address and telephone was leaked in a cyberattack by a hacking group called Moses Staff.