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Related: About this forumAs cyber-war begins, Israeli hackers hit back
Anti-Israel groups start predicted hacking operation, with little initial major success. An Israeli strike force responds with pro-Israel content on a resonant domain name
Anti-Israel hackers stepped up their attempts to pull down Israeli sites over the weekend, with numerous attempted denial of service (DDoS) attacks against Israeli government sites. Hacker sites listed numerous websites they claimed to have disabled, and several sites reported slowdowns on Saturday night, but nearly all the sites the hackers claimed to have taken down were operating normally
Meanwhile, Israeli hackers began to retaliate against the anti-Israel hack attacks, called #OpIsrael, with an operation of their own against sites in countries associated with the anti-Israel groups. A group called the Israeli Elite Strike Force over the weekend disabled dozens of sites in Pakistan, Iran, Syria, and several north African countries and even acquired a domain name associated with the OpIsrael attack opisrael.com. Instead of listing the sites anti-Israel hackers have defaced, that site features educational facts about Israel and the Jewish people, and a warning to anti-Israel groups that Israeli hackers were ready to fight fire with fire.
Israeli Elite Strike Force seems to have been organized quickly in the past few days, in response to the threat by anti-Israel hackers to erase Israel from the Internet on April 7. The hackers released a list of some 1,300 Israeli sites that they planned to strike, claiming to have begun their attacks already on Saturday. But a check of most of the sites that the hackers claimed to have disabled sites belonging to the Bank of Israel, the Tax Authority, the Central Bureau of Statistics, and other government agencies showed they were operating normally. Several sites were hacked by groups associated with OpIsrael, but most of those were privately owned sites.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/as-cyber-war-begins-israeli-hackers-hit-back/