Last week cyber news
Since the beeper attack, hacking groups have intensified their activities against Israel, particularly in the areas of DDoS attacks and website damage.
Attackers published databases from the consulting company Deloitte and the company Oracle.
An attacker is selling information that supposedly belongs to the Menora Mivtachim company. The attacker claims, the database contains details regarding approximately 1.1 million customers.
Emails of employees at the Rehovot municipality were breached—the union is demanding compensation amounting to tens of millions.
Handala – a hacking group claims to have breached into the companies Vidisco and ‘Batteries Industry for Israel’ and stolen sensitive information.
Karma – the Iranian hacking group which is behind the BiBi Wiper malware, claims to have targeted the servers of Bynet Software Systems. At this stage, the extent and credibility of the incident are unclear, but the group published a picture that allegedly shows data being deleted from the servers.
Impersonation Of the National Cyber Directorate
The National Cyber Directorate issued a statement in response to spam messages that impersonated the Home Front Command and the National Cyber Directorate. This is an attempt by the enemy to instill fear, using false information to incite panic among the public. According to the Cyber Directorate’s investigation, around 5 million messages were sent, with Iran and Hezbollah identified as the parties behind the distribution. The messages included malicious links, which were quickly removed after their discovery.
The Cyber Directorate emphasized that this is not a sophisticated cyber attack, and with a little discretion, the messages could have been identified as unreliable. The Home Front Command does not send SMS messages instructing people to enter shelters, does not distribute messages with spelling errors, and does not direct recipients to external domains with unknown endings like “.xyz.”
Additionally, the Cyber Directorate advised the public to avoid clicking on suspicious links, block the numbers from which the messages were sent, and report to hotline 119 in case of concerns. During this time, similar attempts are increasing, Therefore, it is important to be on high alert and take precautionary measures
78% of Hospitals Are Disclosing Information Without Proper Record-Keeping
A government report found that 78% of hospitals provide medical information to other parties without proper documentation. The report revealed that one-third of the entities are at a low level in data management, and half of them are at a medium or low level in organizational control and corporate governance. Approximately 71% of hospitals meet high information security requirements, but the transfer of information between public entities does not comply with legal requirements in most cases.
