Anonymous’s Attempt To Erase Israel From Cyber Space Failed!

Anonymous’s audacious attack to completely disrupt the Israel cyber space is not much of a success. The infamous hacking group Anonymous had announced, in a , another massive cyber attack on Israel dubbed as #OpIsrael on 7th April 2013. The previous attack was in November 2012 during Israel’s Operation Pillar of Defense. The aim of this attack was to “disrupt and erase Israel from cyberspace” in a symbolic protest of Israel’s mistreatment of Palestinians.

The You Tube announcement says:

“elite cyber-squadrons from around the world have decided to unite in solidarity with the Palestinian people against Israel as one entity to disrupt and erase Israel from cyberspace.”

The #OpIsrael operation is enthusiastically supported by many Arab hacker groups along with several “Muslim hackers” which is quite normal considering the Jew-Muslim conflict. The sage was set for the attack with a OpIsrael Twitter handle, website and a twitter campaign with #OpIsrael hashtags.

Little success for #OpIsrael:

Far from erasing Israel from cyber space, operation #OpIsrael saw little success till now. An announcement by N4m3le55 cr3w, an Arab hacking group affiliated to Anonymous, said that they had identified 600 websites and more than 100 servers to attack. N4m3le55 cr3w also speculated the total attack targets by all the groups will be thousands.

As of now, dozens of Israeli websites are unaccessible in Anonymous’ signature DDoS attacks. Apart from that, many other Israeli websites have been defaced. But the damage is not as big as it intended to be. Yitzhak Ben Yisrael, of the government’s National Cyber Bureau said that hackers had mostly failed to shut down key sites.

“So far it is as was expected, there is hardly any real damage. 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 of time. It wants to create noise in the media about issues that are close to its heart.”

Israeli hackers’ retaliation:

This was only expected. The announcement made by Anonymous stirred up the Israeli geeks and the Israeli hacker groups planned a counter attack on Arab cyber world. The biggest and most embarrassing causality taken by Anonymous was the hacking of its OpIsrael official website by EhIsR.