Last week, we released a research paper titled “Operation Arid Viper: Bypassing the Iron Dome” where we detailed two related campaigns. To recall, here are our key findings related to the two campaigns: Palestinian threat actors have staged a targeted attack, Operation Arid Viper, to exfiltrate data from high-profile targets in the Israeli government and have…
Read MoreToday, Trend Micro publishes a research report on an ongoing malware campaign that targets Israeli victims and leverages network infrastructure in Germany. The campaign has strong attribution ties to Arab parties located in the Gaza Strip and elsewhere. We have uncovered two separate, but heavily interconnected campaigns: Operation Arid Viper: This is a highly-targeted attack on high-value…
Read MoreLast April 7, several Israeli websites were targeted by the hacker group Anonymous. Based from reports, certain government and private Israeli websites were not accessible and were possibly victims of a DDoS attack. Media coverage of DDoS attacks tend to cover on whether or not the targeted site is knocked offline, and not particularly how…
Read MoreCertain German websites were defaced by a group of hackers on April Fools day. However, this act was no ordinary prank. The hackers left messages on the defaced German websites in Arabic, and the message is quite clear: Figure 1. Screenshot of defaced German website Translated, the text reads as: Algeria to the core #…
Read MoreWe recently documented an attack that leveraged the publicly available Xtreme RAT on targets in Israel and was widely reported in the media. Our friends at Norman were able to link the attack to a yearlong campaign against both Israeli and Palestinian targets. We have found that the attacks are still on-going and that the…
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