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Massive Cyberattack On 40 Israeli Firms Believed To Be Iran’s “Revenge” For Assassination<\/h1>\n

ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n

Iran has repeatedly vowed revenge against those behind the assassination of its top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh outside\u00a0Tehran on November 27. Tehran has blamed Israel for carrying out the high-tech hit, which appears to have involved\u00a0one or more ‘remote guns’<\/a>\u00a0activated via satellite targeting.<\/p>\n

But it’s widely expected this ‘revenge’ in whatever form it takes will initially be limited, given that on the one hand the Islamic Republic knows the outgoing Trump administration may be looking for\u00a0a\u00a0casus belli<\/em>\u00a0that can justify military intervention and escalation against Iranian targets, but on the other the brazen killing of Iranian officials can’t just go “unanswered”.<\/p>\n

On Monday Israeli media is widely reporting that\u00a0Iran’s revenge has likely begun in the form of widescale cyber attacks against Israeli firms<\/strong>\u00a0that are in some cases central to the financial, technology and logistics sectors.<\/p>\n

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IDF soldiers at a control board in the National Cyber Bureau, via The Times of Israel<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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“At least 40 Israeli companies were affected by a cyberattack very likely from Iran, after Amitai Data, which sells software to\u00a0logistics companies was targeted by hackers,”<\/strong>\u00a0Haaretz<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>reports.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Haaretz<\/em>\u00a0report details that sporadic waves of intrusions and mass data theft appeared to originate through Amitai Data’s system, particularly via\u00a0the company’s\u00a0Unifreight logistics software used by its many clients.<\/p>\n

According to further details in\u00a0Haaretz<\/a>:<\/p>\n

News of the hack and subsequent data leak from firms using Amital Data’s Unifreight\u00a0software was revealed in a filing to Israel\u2019s stock exchange by Amital’s stockholder Orian.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, a hacking team called\u00a0Pay2Key<\/a>, which in the past was linked back to Iran, made a public statement regarding an attack it launched in September against yet another Israeli firm \u2013\u00a0Habana Labs<\/a>, which is\u00a0owned by Intel and provides AI solutions<\/strong>. The hackers said they had full control over the Israeli company\u2019s system, including access to sensitive data.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This also involved attacks on multiple large\u00a0logistics firms responsible for the transport of vital pharmaceuticals at\u00a0a critical moment Israel is poised to access and distribute COVID-19 vaccines via\u00a0various global developers it has agreements with<\/strong>.<\/p>\n