Effingham Talk

He explained that the hacker used a bot to take control of personal
computers in Israel. Through this bot, thats not inside your computer,
he can use your system without your knowledge to attack others. The
bots hide themselves well, he said, but [Check Point] has developed
the technology to track them.

Shwed stated that a multi-pronged cyber war has been declared against
Israel. It is our belief that there has been a general, large-scale
attack against Israel, and at the same time a subtle, sophisticated one
as well. In our bid to fight against the large attack, we missed the
smaller one, and thats how they managed to bypass our security
systems.

The Saudi hacking attacks prompted responses from high echelons of the Israeli political system. Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon said Saturday
that he considers hacking similar to terrorism. Breaches of Israel’s
cyberspace are a breach of sovereignty similar to terrorism and should
be treated as such, he said.

The hacker spokesman, going by the codename 0xOmar, said Monday: “I’ll hack Israeli servers and publish their
data, I’ll publish credit cards. Imagine every possible cyber attack, I’ll do
it. There is no end for it, but if Israeli authorities ask for apologize for
their genocide in Palestine and Gaza, I’ll reduce attacks.”

Yaakov Lappin contributed to this report.

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