IDF has fended off more than three billion cyberattacks since Oct 7 All Israel News

pIsrael Defense Forces has been the target of more than three billion cyberattacks since Oct 7 according to Col Racheli Dembinsky commander of the IDFs Center of Computing and Information Systems MamramppThe attacks were all intercepted and no damage was done to any computer systems Dembinsky added while speaking at the IT for IDF conference in Rishon Lezion on Wednesday ppThe targets included operational cloud computing used by many systems serving troops on the ground during combat to share information and locations of forces ppCyberattacks were also carried out against Israel on Oct 7 when Palestinian terrorists invaded southern Israel killed 1200 people and abducted more than 250 into Gaza ppI received a phone call that morning and thought there was a malfunction in the alert system I quickly understood there wasnt a malfunction but a broader attack Debinsky recalled ppAlso we immediately understood this wasnt fake I put on my uniform and drove to the base We began transitioning to emergency mode We were required to focus on the continuous functioning of people and systems The industry assisted us and it along with the reservists we recruited acted as a force multiplier for usppDembinsky also spoke about the challenges of dealing with computer systems overload as Israel recruited reservists for the military operations in Gaza ppThe recruitment of reservists and the growth in the amount of users brought about a few peaks One of the peaks was reasonable but another one on October 27 the eve of the IDFs ground incursion in the Gaza Strip brought an extraordinary amount of usersppWe reached a situation where we were allocating computing resources at 120 capacity We realized that if we didnt address the overloads and slowdowns the situation would overwhelm us Therefore during the first weeks of the war we took two approaches regulating computing and storage resources as well as adding more servers to the data centers This wasnt enough so we established an additional data center to provide computing support for operational capabilitiesppIn contrast to military computer systems cyberattacks have been successful against some civilian computer systems in Israel Iran has been orchestrating a targeted and coordinated campaign of cyberattacks against Israel since Oct 7ppIran is waging a targeted coordinated and destructive campaign of cyberattacks and antiIsrael operations against Israel stated the Microsoft Threat Analysis Center in FebruaryppBy late October nearly all of Irans influence and major cyber actors focused on Israel in an increasingly targeted coordinated and destructive manner making for a seemingly boundless allhandsondeck campaign against Israel Unlike some of Irans past cyberattacks all of its destructive cyberattacks against Israel in this war real or fabricated were complemented with online influence operationsppIn November for example the Israel State Archives were breached by Iranaffiliated hackers and the archives were only put back online last month Additionally hackers successfully targeted the computer systems of the city of Modiin IllitppLast month Israel National Cyber Directorate INCD warned that Irans growing cyber terrorism had become not only a threat to Israel but a global threat since Oct 7ppWe have identified that Iran is attacking its allies and other countries for information extortion and damaging digital services said head of the ICND Gaby Portnoy during a speech at the Cyberweek annual conference held at Tel Aviv University ppThe information stolen from government systems is then used for Iranian cyberterrorism he addedppppppThe All Israel News Staff is a team of journalists in Israelpp

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