Hackers belonging to the Anonymous hacktivist group are reportedly planning a concentrated attack on hundreds of popular Israeli Internet pages beginning on Valentine’s Day. Data security agencies have discovered that “bots” were planted in the computerized systems of a number of commercial companies, and the bots are set to become operational on February 14, effectively shutting [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Israel’
Israel to receive a not-so-romantic Valentine’s gift from Anonymous
Posted: 7th February 2012 by infosecindia in DDoS, NewsTags: Anonymous, cyberattacks, hacktivist, Israel, Valentine's Day
Power Soccer website hacked, AlienZ warns of attacks on Arabs and Muslims
Posted: 18th January 2012 by infosecindia in DDoS, NewsTags: AlienZ, hacker, Hannibal, Israel, oxOmar, script kid, www.powersoccer.ca
In what seemed to have started as a hobbyist hacking against Israel, Pro-Palestinian hacker oxOmar has brought things to a completely different level. While soon after the first attack, Israel declared that any such attacks would be considered acts of terrorism, various groups of hackers are now fighting each other in the cyber space. After [...]
0xOmar building a jihadist hacker army
Posted: 16th January 2012 by infosecindia in NewsTags: hacker, Israel, Jihadist hackers group, oxOmar, Saudi Arabia
As one of the Israeli hackers, Hannibal tries to hack Saudi users to counter attacks originating from Saudi Arabia, the Saudi hacker, 0xOmar, who recently started a series of hacking attacks against Israel is now in the process of building a cyber army or a Jihadist army of hackers. The hacker is trying to make [...]
Hackers deface over 100 sites to target Israel
Posted: 9th January 2012 by infosecindia in Law & Order, NewsTags: Anonymous, Chliz Aceh, hacker, Hax Alpha, Israel, Milan Millo, Palestinian, Tha Dexter, Tha Jonathan, Tha Newbie HaXor. M|l05, THA Optimiz3r, Zhc BlackOne Haxor, Zhc BOZZERROR, Zhc Chris Point, Zhc Target Akaa Saywot
A group of hackers including Zhc (Z Company Hacking Crew, THA( TheHackerArmy ) and a bunch of other hackers have struck out over a 100 websites worldwide, targeted at promoting anti-Israel messages on the Internet. The list of sites are not from one particular nation or industry etc. Rather the group seems to have targeted a [...]
Israel arrests 18 year old man for using stolen credit card details for shopping
Posted: 9th January 2012 by infosecindia in Data Loss, Law & OrderTags: credit card details, Israel, oxOmar
In the wake of the recent incident of stealing data of over 400k credit cards in Israel, the local police has arrested a person who used these details to purchase gadgets online. Israel’s Deputy Foreign Minister Dany Ayalon last week said that such hacking incidents would be treated like acts of terrorism and seems to be [...]
Israel to respond to hackers militarily
Posted: 8th January 2012 by infosecindia in Data Loss, Data Privacy, NewsTags: cyber attack, hacker, Israel, oxOmar
The recent leak of over 400k total credit cards by a hacker called oxOmar and later the hacker’s challenge to catch him hasn’t gone down well the throat of Israel. The Israeli government has seen this incident as an act of terrorism. According to Israel, this incident was an attempt to disrupt the country’s banking system and cause [...]
Saudi hacker, oxOmar challenges Israeli authorities
Posted: 7th January 2012 by infosecindia in Data Loss, Law & OrderTags: hacker, Israel, Israeli, oxOmar, Pastebin
Saudi Arabian hacker, 0xOmar, has fired back at Israeli authorities over the ‘disinformation’ from the government in attempts to ‘cover this up and make it end’. The hacker taunted, “From here, I challenge the world to find me, let’s the game begin. You have 2 weeks. If I come back and post another message after [...]
More Israeli credit card details leaked by oxOmar
Posted: 6th January 2012 by infosecindia in Data Loss, Data Privacy, NewsTags: credit card details, DinnerDash, hacker, IsraCards, Israel, oxOmar, Pastebin
Saudi Arabian hacker, 0xOmar has released another dump of Israeli credit cards and continued to urge people to use them; as well as sending out further warnings. This time around the hacker exposed over 200k credit card details. oxOmar warns of much severe and larger hacks in the near future. The hacker also makes note that the Israeli government is working hard to [...]
Hacker releases credit card details of 400,000 Israelis
Posted: 3rd January 2012 by infosecindia in Data Loss, Data Privacy, NewsTags: Data leak, Data Loss, Isracard, Israel, Israel Credit Cards, Leumi Card, pastebay, Pastebin, personally identifiable information, PII
A hacker describing himself as “0xOmar from group-xp, largest Wahhabi hacker group of Saudi Arabia” has posted personally identifiable data (PII) of over 400,000 Israelis on pastebin. The person claims to be a part of the Anonymous group based in Saudi Arabia. The data has also been pasted on PasteBay to provide additional copy. According [...]