Cyberattack against Israeli government causes 'hardly any real damage'
A cyberattack campaign targeting Israeli government websites failed to cause serious disruption, officials said today.
It followed warnings in the name of the hacking group Anonymous that it was launching a massive attack, but Yitzhak Ben Yisrael, of the government’s National Cyber Bureau, said hackers had mostly failed to shut down key sites.
“So far it is as was expected, there is hardly any real damage,” he said. “Anonymous doesn’t have the skills to damage the country’s vital infrastructure.
“And if that was its intention, then it wouldn’t have announced the attack ahead of time.
“It wants to create noise in the media about issues that are close to its heart.”
Hackers group Anonymous are thought to have successfully
