Cybersecurity
Pro-Hamas Hackers Targeted Israeli Engineers Ahead of Oct. 7
- Spies used ‘very effective’ tactic, spreading malware
- A rare example of known cyber-activity in run-up to Oct. 7
Hamas-linked hackers in September “posed as employees of a legitimate company” to lure Israel-based software engineers.
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A pro-Palestinian hacking group targeted Israeli software engineers as part of an attempt to dupe them into downloading malware weeks before the Oct. 7 massacre, according to findings from cybersecurity researchers at Alphabet Inc.’s Google.