By David Shamah: After April’s largely unsuccessful campaign by Anonymous and Arab hackers, #OpIsrael, to “remove Israel from the Internet,” a second round of hack attacks against Israeli sites, “OpIsrael Reloaded,” is planned for Saturday. The followup campaign seeks to demonstrate that Israel did indeed sustain a great deal of damage and economic loss during the first effort.
The campaign has picked up some steam on
hacker networks, but is unlikely to be as large as #OpIsrael. There were
dozens of YouTube videos “advertising” that campaign with hundreds of
thousands of views, while #OpIsraelReloaded showed up just a few times
on the site, with only a few thousand views recorded, as of Thursday
evening. Nevertheless, system administrators in government and
enterprise are redoubling their network defenses to ensure that they
weather the coming storm.
This time, however, the identities of the
Anonymous hackers planning the attack are a little less, well,
Anonymous. Born on the eve of the original #OpIsrael in April, a
pro-Israel hacker team called the Israel Elite Force (IEF) has been
responding in kind, defacing sites in Arab countries and publishing what
it claims are names and passwords for credit card, Facebook, bank and
email accounts, and other information that is supposed to be secure.
The IEF’s latest gambit seeks to “rip the mask
off the hackers attacking Israel,” the group says in a video. A message
on a hacker site and in the IEF’s Twitter feed refers web surfers to a web page
listing personal details of individuals the group says are key figures
in the #OpIsrael hacking operations. The information was gathered, the
group said, by hackers in its own organization, and with the help of a
joint team of American and Israeli hackers...Continue reading...
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