Iranian cyber-attackers targeting Israel have focused on trying to create panic; however, they have not activated advanced cyber-attack capabilities, say observers in Israel while cautioning that the hostile actors will continue to search for new vulnerabilities.

Israel’s National Cyber Directorate, set up in 2012 (originally known as the National Cyber Bureau), is a regulator that ensures that critical private- and public-sector websites are protected, and defines the minimum levels of protection needed for all critical infrastructure and private-sector companies.

“Specifically, the hacks targeted public-address systems in Jerusalem and Eilat,” said Omree Wechsler, a senior researcher at the Blavatnik Interdisciplinary Cyber Research Center, at Tel Aviv University.

As reported by JNS
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