WEST BANK (Dispatches) – Hacker groups have had Zionist firms and facilities in the cross hairs over the past few months, and now Sudanese hackers have carried out a massive cyber-attack against a number of the occupying regime’s websites, including that of a major aerospace and aviation manufacturer.
Palestinian media outlets reported that the websites of Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), Israel Weapon Industries (IWI) – a firearms manufacturer, Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. and Evigilo Ltd., which develops and delivers emergency mass-notification and alert multi-channel solutions, went down on Saturday. The attack was claimed by a group of hackers that goes by the name ‘Anonymous Sudan.’
The same hacker group recently targeted the websites of the Israeli spy agency Mossad, the so-called internal spy agency Shin Bet, and several other companies across the occupied territories.
The Hebrew-language Maariv daily newspaper reported on April 24 that various Zionist websites were knocked offline due to a widespread cyber-attack by Anonymous Sudan.
Among those targeted were television, communication companies, banks, service companies, universities, newspapers, and the regime’s water company.
On Wednesday, a group of hackers known as ‘Sharp Boys’ targeted the Atid vocational training institute, and put the stolen information up for sale after publishing part of it, including a file containing 200,000 names, identification numbers and addresses of the students. The hacker group claimed it had obtained the personal information of Israelis, including identification documents of people who served in the military and police forces of the occupying regime.
Furthermore, a group of hackers has claimed responsibility for a cyber attack that they say was the reason behind major power failures in several cities across Israeli-occupied territories on Thursday.
The Anonymous Sudan hacker group, which has waged several cyber attacks against various websites in the past few weeks, announced on Thursday it was responsible for the recent power outages.
In a post on its Telegram channel, the group said that “the electric attack was just for fun. We’ll show you more”.
It also warned of more attacks, saying, “Israel, we are still playing with you ... soon you will be without the internet. We are working to down the internet in Israel like electricity.”
The power cuts caused traffic jams in Tel Aviv while also affecting the Knesset and government ministries, Israeli media reported.