Hackers broke into an Israeli defense ministry computer via an email attachment tainted with malicious software that looked like it had been sent by the country’s Shin Bet secret security service, an Israeli cyber security firm said today.
Aviv Raff, chief technology officer at Seculert, said the hackers earlier this month temporarily took over 15 computers, one of them belonging to Israel’s Civil Administration that monitors Palestinians in Israel.
Palestinians are suspected to be behind the cyber attack. The latest attack was conducted from a server in the United States. Read more at Ynet.
{Matzav.com Israel}
