Hamas used ‘attractive’ women in thwarted cyber attack, says Israel
This is the third attempted malware attack by Hamas in less than four years, indicating the Islamist group's improved their capacity to wage cyber warfare. – EPA pic, February 16, 2020.
ISRAEL’S military said today it had thwarted an attempted malware attack by Hamas that sought to gain access to soldiers’ mobile phones by using seductive pictures of young women. The phones of a few dozen soldiers were affected, but the military “does not assess that there has been a substantial breach of information”, said Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan Conricus, an army spokesman.
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