http://www.timesofisrael.com/anonymous-a-little-less-so-thanks-to-israeli-hackers/
By DAVID SHAMAH
The Times of Israel
May 24, 2013
After April’s largely unsuccessful campaign by Anonymous and Arab
hackers, #OpIsrael, to “remove Israel from the Internet,” a second round
of hack attacks against Israeli sites, “OpIsrael Reloaded,” is planned
for Saturday. The followup campaign seeks to demonstrate that Israel did
indeed sustain a great deal of damage and economic loss during the first
effort.
The campaign has picked up some steam on hacker networks, but is
unlikely to be as large as #OpIsrael. There were dozens of YouTube
videos “advertising” that campaign with hundreds of thousands of views,
while #OpIsraelReloaded showed up just a few times on the site, with
only a few thousand views recorded, as of Thursday evening.
Nevertheless, system administrators in government and enterprise are
redoubling their network defenses to ensure that they weather the coming
storm.
This time, however, the identities of the Anonymous hackers planning the
attack are a little less, well, Anonymous. Born on the eve of the
original #OpIsrael in April, a pro-Israel hacker team called the Israel
Elite Force has been responding in kind, defacing sites in Arab
countries and publishing what it claims are names and passwords for
credit card, Facebook, bank and email accounts, and other information
that is supposed to be secure.
The IEF’s latest gambit seeks to “rip the mask off the hackers attacking
Israel,” the group says in a video. A message on a hacker site and in
the IEF’s Twitter feed refers web surfers to a web page listing personal
details of individuals the group says are key figures in the #OpIsrael
hacking operations. The information was gathered, the group said, by
hackers in its own organization, and with the help of a joint team of
American and Israeli hackers.
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