Jerusalem (AFP) – Israeli authorities said on Wednesday that they had detected planned cyber attacks against 120 public and private targets in the Jewish state but did not specify the intended victims.
A statement from Israel’s National Authority for Cyber Defence said that “in recent days” it had uncovered plans for a mass e-mail attack by what it described as an assailant masquerading as a “legitimate organisation” using a bogus security certificate.
It did not say what countermeasures it had taken but said the attacks threatened “government ministries, public institutions and private individuals”.
Haaretz newspaper said that the attackers “tried to exploit a vulnerability in Microsoft Word.”
In November two main Israeli TV newscasts were taken over by hackers who beamed an Islamist message threatening divine fire against the Jewish state.
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