In cyberconflitto between Hamas and the israeli army (Idf) smartphones have become elements of vulnerability and enjoy chat with of the or of the unknown can be a naivety dangerous.
Yesterday, the spokesman of the Idf, Jonathan Conricus has revealed that in recent months, militants of the palestinian group would have attempted to hack the phones of dozens of israeli military adescandoli with photos of girls “attractive”, and offered to chat in the chat, via Facebook, Twitter or Instagram, and then tried to convince the soldiers to click on the links that the purpose was to evoke such applications to exchange pics, but contained, in reality the spy software.
Conricus has not specified what evidence the army has found to be attributed the attack to Hamas, but has said that there is “solid evidence”.
it is Not the first time that happens: in the past, Hamas has already tried to access data from the phones of the military, and in may of last year the israeli army for the first time responded with a strike, the physical a cyber attack, hitting a building in the Gaza strip, which has been defined by the israelis as the headquarters of the cyberoperazioni of the palestinian group.
The girls invited the soldiers to have access to an app similar to Snapchat that actually contained the link to some malware covered by dating sites – Catch&See ZatuApp and GrixyApp. Conricus has ruled that there have been “significant loss of information”, but he also admitted that “the level of social engineering” of these operations has become more sophisticated “compared to previous attempts”. They are learning and improving their game”.
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