Israel belittle hacker group’s threats of “electronic holocaust” – Dagbladet.no

(Dagbladet): Hacker collective Anonymous has once again come with threats, and a promise of “electronic holocaust” against the state of Israel to “erase the nation from the electronic map.”

On this occasion the group released a video under the name ” Anonymous Message two Israel “where they threaten to attack servers and sites belonging to the government, the military and banks. The date of the attack is April 7th.

– Going to continue …

video shows, as is usual in these videos, a man dressed in a suit and with a Guy Fawkes mask. In addition, the voice that speaks only an electronic “voice-over”.

– We come back to punish you again for the crimes you have done and are doing in Palestinian territories. All we can see is still aggression, bombing and killing of the Palestinian population, the voice says.

The video also shows images of the conflict in Gaza last year, calling young Palestinians a symbol of “freedom , resistance struggle and hope. ” It also appears images of the newly elected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in what may look like a military advice.

– As we promised in our previous attacks come will continue with it until the Palestinian people are freely. That is why elite team of hackers from around the world now joins in solidarity with the Palestinian people against Israel. As a great device to disrupt and erase Israel from the electronic map. On April 7, we’ll show you what electronic holocaust means.

downplayed the attack

Anonymous has come with hacker attacks against Israel several times before. This is the third year where the action is notified on April 7, a date that comes just over a week before Israel has its own anniversary to commemorate the Holocaust – Yom HaShoah.

Israel did not even look at the hacker group as a threat . At least not if you believe Benjamin T Decker, an analyst whose specialty is IT security. He belittles threats.

– As the years have passed, we have seen that the damage to our electronic infrastructure has been minimal. Mainly the reason for this that Israel are pioneers in electronic warfare – both when it comes to offense and defense. The threats mainly trades to show off, he tells Newsweek.

However, there is some controversy about how much damage the previous attacks have done. According Anonymous although they did in 2013 damage for 24 billion when they attacked 100 000 pages, 40 000 Facebook pages, Twitter accounts 5000 and 30,000 Israeli bank accounts, according to Haaretz.

IS

It is not only Israel that is on the list of the Anonymous sees as his enemies. Also terrorist group IS has been reviewing, but then they in February became targets for a hacker attack struck IS sympathizers back quickly.

The day after hacker collective Anonymous announced that they have closed down nearly 800 Twitter accounts associated with the Islamic state (IS) , beating IS hackers on the social website.

The group, which calls itself “Cyber ​​Caliphate”, should have hacked multiple Twitter accounts, including the account of the US news magazine Newsweek.

– We can confirm that Newsweek Twitter account was hacked this morning, and we have since gained control of the account again. We apologize for offensive messages that may have been sent out from our account in this period, and are working to strengthen our security, said news editor Kira Bindrim in a statement.

Charlie Hebdo

Also in retrospect of the terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo karrikaturmagasinet appeared Anonymous up in the media. In the clip that was posted as one could see a masked figure, whose voice was distorted.

– We declare war against you terrorists, said the person.

He / she added that the group would track down and close all social media accounts that could be connected to terrorists to avenge those killed in the attack.

The video also came with an announcement on pastebin called “a message to all enemies of freedom of expression.” Here also came hacker collective with his condolences to “the families of those affected by this cowardly and heinous act.”

Also here in Norway, Anonymous has several sympathizers and members. Dagbladet met some of them in winter and mapped several of their methods (requires login).