A suspicion: Iranian cyber attack caused he false alarm in Jerusalem and Eilat yesterday

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by Ifi Reporter Category:Hitech Jun 20, 2022

A suspicion that a cyber attack caused a false alarm in Jerusalem and Eilat - this morning (Monday) the national cyber system reported. Following the incident, the array last night instructed local authorities to protect local public address systems. The attack was not on Home Front Command systems and it was not said who was behind it, but it was investigated whether these were Iranian hackers.
Last week, the Israeli cyber security company Check Point published an Iranian attack on senior Israeli officials, which began in December 2021, including former Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni. As part of the attack, the hackers broke into the email box of a senior reserve general who served in a sensitive position, impersonated him and corresponded on his behalf with senior officials in order to get them to open various documents. Check Point updated the security forces in Israel on the attack.
According to the study, Iranian attackers conducted e-mail correspondence with senior Israeli officials after breaking into several e-mail addresses and impersonating the same entities. The correspondence included sending documents including an invitation to a conference abroad and articles on the Iranian nuclear program - and these required the victims to type in their email password.
During December, the former foreign minister received several emails in Hebrew from the same general in the reserve, in which she asked to read an article he wrote about security incidents in 2021. After several emails in which he urged Livni to open the file with her email password, Livni turned to the reservist
"Livni forwarded the e-mail correspondence to us, from which we tracked down the senders and files and found out how broad the move was (publishing Livni's name matches her)," Check Point said. They said that in those months to last week, the Iranian attackers managed to get their hands on a private email correspondence between the head of a very central research institute in Israel and the former US ambassador to Israel, and used it to create further correspondence during which they impersonated the ambassador using another email.

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