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Portugal warns foreign state-backed hackers targeting officials' and military messaging accounts

According to the Portuguese national intelligence service (SIS), the hacker group targeted WhatsApp and Signal accounts of government officials, diplomats, and military personnel.

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FBI agents monitor suspicious activity; illustrative.

FBI 'identified and addressed' suspicious cyber activity on its networks, agency spokesperson says

Hackers from the Handala group claimed to have hacked former MK Ayelet Shaked's phone.

Handala hackers claim to have hacked former MK Ayelet Shaked's phone, share pictures, videos online

 People gather and light candles to remember the Israeli victims of the October 7 massacre at Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv, October 12, 2023.

Fundraising site for October 7 ceremony targeted in alleged Hack


Could third-party breaches threaten Israel’s new credit data sharing system?

Israel’s first-ever system for sharing credit data, featuring the establishment of a central credit register, was officially launched by the Bank of Israel last week.

IDRRA CEO Kobi Freedman

Hacker attacks major Israeli websites, temporarily shutting them down

An anonymous hacker could have brought parts of the Israeli economy to a halt over Shabbat, when it compromised hundreds of websites and destroyed nearly 1 million web pages.

A message demanding money is seen on a monitor of a payment terminal after a cyber attack

U.S. hackers fail to claim $100,000 Israeli cyber challenge prize

While hundreds arrived at the company's event in Atlanta, they all failed.

Employees, mostly veterans of military computing units, use keyboards as they work at a cyber hotline facility at Israel's Computer Emergency Response Centre (CERT) in Beersheba, southern Israel

Hackers break into major U.S. email provider, wiping data

VFEmail's notice on its website about the hacking attack

Media Comment: The true hackers

This being Israel, the media attacked Netanyahu for exerting unethical and perhaps illegal pressure on the police and the attorney-general. Hackers interfering? No, the media, openly.

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Facebook says cyber-attack hackers did not use third party logins

Some security experts, including a former Facebook executive, said the company may have painted a dire, worst-case scenario when it disclosed the attack on Friday.

The Facebook application is seen on a phone screen August 3, 2017.

Snapchat map renames New York 'Jewtropolis'

The app said a third-party service was subject to 'vandalism,' and the faux-pas was quickly reversed.

A screenshot shows a Snapchat map on which New York City is labelled as 'Jewtropolis'

Chinese: Trump's email hacking accusations are baseless

China's Foreign Ministry disclaimed Trump's tweet, which stated that China hacked Clinton's emails.

US President Donald Trump and China's President Xi Jinping arrive at state dinner, Great Hall of the People, Beijing, 2017.

American-Israeli teen hacker behind JCC bomb threats found guilty

Targets of threats included Jewish community centers, schools, airports, shopping malls and hospitals.

An US-Israeli teen who was arrested in Israel on suspicion of making bomb threats against Jewish community centers in the United States, Australia and New Zealand is seen at a remand hearing at Magistrate's Court in Rishon Lezion, Israel on March 23, 2017

U.S., UK allege Russian-backed hackers of global cyber espionage campaign

The officials said the infected routers could be leveraged to launch future offensive cyber operations.

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