Deputy chief of the IDF's Unit 8200 Col. U. on Wednesday said that his intelligence agency had previously warned the US of attempts to hack the country's power plants in time to thwart the cyberattack.

Although this was not the first time Israeli warnings to the US to avoid cyberattacks have been made public, it was the first time a current Unit 8200 official discussed such sensitive cyber intelligence sharing in public.

The most famous known example was Israel's 2017 warning to the US about Russia's Kaspersky antivirus software being used as a way to backdoor spy on them or plant malware.

Source: Jerusalem Post - Photo: Cyber Week Tel Aviv University