On the seventh of last October, something happened that the Israelis and the entire world did not expect: it was launched Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades The military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movementagitation” Battle of Al-Aqsa FloodIts fighters entered the Gaza Strip settlements in a unique military operation.
Since then, Israel has faced a flood of attacks.Cyber“, by groups of “hackers” supporting the Palestinian cause from different nationalities and in different countries.
A group of Palestinian hackers calling themselves “Cyber Flood Al-Aqsa” and placing the logo of the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades next to its logo said that it had sent a threat to all Israeli institutions by hacking and hacking them.
We are the terror that awaits you. Wait for the largest cyber attack your country has ever known #Cyber_Flood_Al-Aqsa
#cyber_toufan_aksa pic.twitter.com/W6YUr2KmLm— ToufanAksaCyber (@toufanaksa) October 27, 2023
Indeed, this hacker group later published details of some of these attacks through its accounts on social media platforms.
In its statement, it announced that a number of websites linked to the Israeli Ministry of Defense had been hacked, and it had acquired a database of a number of conscripts and reserve soldiers, their numbers, and other information related to sensitive information, which it announced would reveal its details in succession. It also vowed that it would use this data as part of another attack system.
Secret documents of the enemy army
Includes military data#Cyber_Flood_Al-Aqsa pic.twitter.com/WTWabhONU5— ToufanAksaCyber (@toufanaksa) October 30, 2023
The “Cyber Flood Al-Aqsa” group also announced the disruption of the work of many Israeli government websites, and others belonging to media institutions. It did not mention the information it had acquired, but rather merely presented a number of websites before they were hacked and after they were acquired.
The group said in its statement that it had penetrated a large number of surveillance systems in a number of Israeli cities and neighborhoods, and had penetrated the surveillance and control systems of a large number of settler homes and broadcast material related to supporting the resistance.
Attack on many screens
Homes and Show View
Acts of resistance against the enemy#Cyber_Flood_Al-Aqsa pic.twitter.com/lx4BcuwSUO— ToufanAksaCyber (@toufanaksa) October 30, 2023
It published other materials highlighting the group’s most prominent goals, including the Israeli Police website, from which it was able to obtain sensitive data, according to its statement.
The group did not announce the nature of the hacked data, but rather published a picture of the hacked site through its accounts on social media platforms.
It is noteworthy that cyber attacks were able to stop more than 100 websites, including the official website of the Israeli intelligence service, coinciding with the launch of the “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation.