Now they’re going after beneficial technology that is developed in Israel? Can that actually be true?
The answer is yes.
This unsettling, but highly illuminating, excerpt comes from Tom Ozimek’s article for theepochtimes.com tells the story:
Multiple federal agencies are warning that Iran-linked hackers have been targeting U.S. water systems and other industries that use programmable-logic controllers (PLC) made by an Israeli firm Unitronics, as the Israel-Hamas war simmers in the background.
The agencies that issued the warning include the FBI, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the National Security Agency (NSA), with the Israel National Cyber Directorate (INCD) joining the U.S. agencies in the advisory.
This IRGC-linked cyberattack group (known variously as CyberAv3ngers, CyberAveng3rs, or Cyber Avengers) has been compromising default credentials in Unitronics devices since at least Nov. 22, the agencies said.
After hacking the PLC devices in multiple states, CyberAv3ngers left the following defacement message: “You have been hacked, down with Israel. Every equipment ‘made in Israel’ is CyberAv3ngers legal target.”
So that’s the Israel haters’ new tactic? Attacking/degrading advances that benefit humankind because they were developed in Israel?
That should keep them busy for quite a while, since Israel is the #1 country on earth when it comes to providing such advances.
And there’s no way for anyone to fight back in kind. Can you name so much as one such advance that has ever come out of Gaza? Or the west bank (Judea and Samaria) since it was taken over by Palestinian Arabs?
The implied – well, more than implied – threat here seems to be “don’t support Israel or we’ll prevent you from using the things Israel does to make your lives better”.
That’s quite a message, wouldn’t you say?
I hope they’re not communicating it over their cell phones, though. That technology came from Israel too.
