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FIFTH DOMAIN


ISRAEL CONFIRMS IT WAS CYBER ATTACK TARGET

By Barbara Opall-Rome
 Jun 24, 2015



TEL AVIV — Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon confirmed Wednesday that Israel was
the target of cyber attacks by Iran during last summer's Gaza war and by
Hezbollah, which reportedly ran an operation going back three years.

Speaking at an international cyber security conference at Tel Aviv University,
Ya'alon insisted "no significant damage" was inflicted by Iranian operatives,
terror organizations and hackers who targeted government, military and economic
sites during the July-August 2014 Operation Protective Edge.



He also confirmed for the first time findings from Tel Aviv-based Check Point
Software Technologies, which reported to its clients in March that Israel,
several Western countries and other Mideast states were had since 2012 been
targets of a sustained cyber spying campaign that the company believed was run
out of Lebanon.

At the time, Check Point did not specifically name Hezbollah as the culprit for
the cyber spying campaign, which the company dubbed "Volatile Cedar." It only
noted that command-and-control servers supporting malware activities were traced
to a hosting company in Lebanon, while several other servers were registered
with "a very similar" Lebanese address. According to the cyber security and
information technology firm, the campaign was based on Trojan horse computer
malware planted in its targets, which was activated to collect data over
extended periods.

"Monitoring these cyber infections was very challenging, due to the numerous
ways in which they were disguised by the hackers," the Check Point report noted.

But Ya'alon, in his Wednesday address, flagged Hezbollah for the Trojan horse
penetrating cyber campaign. "A few months ago it was reported that activities by
Israeli security specialists uncovered and destroyed a Trojan horse planted in
Israeli systems by, according to the report, the Hezbollah organization," he
said.



"Today it's obvious that the cybernetic field is a war-fighting domain in and of
itself, which includes defense and offense. While conventional warfare is
conducted in geographic theaters and on land, sea, air and even space, this
domain knows no borders. The cyber domain is has no geographic boundaries,"
Ya'alon said.

More than 10 years ago, as then-Israel Defense Forces (IDF) chief of staff,
Ya'alon recalled, he authorized the establishment of the C4I Branch as part of
the IDF General Staff.

Last week, he approved a decision by Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot, IDF chief of staff,
to establish a Cyber Command within two years that would integrate defensive
operations and developments now performed by the C4I Branch with collection and
offensive operations performed by Unit 8200 and other sectors of Military
Intelligence.

"The capabilities and the requirements of today oblige us to make organizational
changes and to stand up this new command," Ya'alon said.

Email: bopallrome@defensenews.com

About Barbara Opall-Rome

Opall-Rome is Israel bureau chief for Defense News. She has been covering
U.S.-Israel strategic cooperation, Mideast security and missile defense since
May 1988. She lives north of Tel Aviv. Visit her website at www.opall-rome.com.

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