Islam Times - Hackers target Israel

Islam Times - At least two major web sites — one Israeli and one American — were disabled for several days last week, as a hacker group held the sites “hostage,” demanding a bounty for halting a massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against them.

The large Israeli web site was targeted last week. A spokesperson for the company — a well-known web platform that has users around the world — said that the company, which identifies as Israeli, “did not want to discuss the details of the attack because it did not wish to make itself a further target, as anti-Israel hackers would be tempted to mount further attacks against us.” The spokesperson also asked that the company not be identified by name for the same reason.

Sources have warned against a mass hacking attack.