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Anonymous threatens Israel of online attacks

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Sharath Kumar
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Hacktivist group Anonymous Thursday threatened online attacks against a number of Israeli government sites, as part of its ongoing Operation Israel (OpIsrael).

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The Anonymous distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks began at 10 a.m. Israeli time (3 a.m. Eastern time).

Anonymous has stated that the DDoS attacks were a response to Israel's reported threat to disconnect Gaza Strip from the Internet. The hacktivist group also put up an online statement following which the attacks followed.

Information Week quotes Ronen Kenig, director of product marketing for security products at Radware, Tel Aviv, as saying "Since this morning they've been trying to take down several Israeli websites, including the prime minister's website, the IDF website, banks, airlines, and so on."

"They published a list of four to five attack tools that they've asked their supporters to use, including the mobile LOIC, and network flooding attack tools." In addition, he said, attackers have been launching brute-force attacks against the IDF's blog, in an attempt to find working access credentials.

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