Israeli hackers bring down Saudi, UAE stock exchange websites
In fresh round of cyber warfare, Israel hackers, who go by the name IDF-TEAM, retaliate against Saudi attack on Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, El Al websites.
By Oded Yaron and Iris Margulis Tags: Tel Aviv Stock ExchangeIsraeli hackers brought down the websites of both the Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul) and the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX) Tuesday, in the latest episode of a continuing cyber war between hackers in the two countries.
The Israeli hackers, who go by the name IDF-Team, were able to paralyze the Tadawul website, while causing significant delays to the ADX exchange site.
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A trader at the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. |
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The hackers wrote that the attack came in response to the “pathetic” hacking of Israeli sites on Monday. The hackers warned that if the attacks continue, they will “move to the next stage and paralyze websites for a period of two weeks to a month.”
Earlier Tuesday, a pro-Israel hacker published a list of 30,000 e-mail addresses and Facebook passwords of "helpless Arabs" on a popular hacking site. The hacker, who goes by Hannibal, wrote that his actions - which began Friday - are a "counter-attack" following the publication of Israeli credit card details on the Internet by a reportedly Saudi hacker.
"I noticed that poor intelligence of 0x omar and his friends [sic]," he wrote on pastebin.com, the same site used by the Saudi hacker. "State of Israel, not to worry, you're in the hands of the world's best hacker that I am [sic]," Hannibal reassured. "I will continue to support the government of Israel will continue to attack the Arab countries," he wrote.
Hannibal claims to have 30 million e-mail addresses of Arabs, complete with passwords, and to have fielded e-mails not only from potential victims but from officials in France and other countries asking him to desist. But if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declares a cyber war, he's ready to publish the details of 10 million bank accounts, Hannibal wrote, adding that he also had information on 4 million Arab credit cards.
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Collective punishment doled out on presumptions. Nothing to cheer in my book!
This cyber battle cannot have a good outcome. I am glad Israelis are defending us from Arab attacks, but I think this should come to an end. Arab hackers are foolish to go against Israelis. There is no competition here, and it's best for them that they desist.
The arab hackers thought they were so clever bringing doe websites in Israel now the Israelis have proven 2 can play. Long term if we are going to make sure we are the only ones doing the hacking we need a deterrent and the only way to provide that deterrent is through targeted killings of foreign hackers. Every now and again a hacker will go missing never to be heard from again of course as with the killing of the Iranian nuclear scientist we deny all knowledge but the hacking community knows what happened and it will stop 99% of them out of fear they will be next on Mossad's hit list.. This is a war, the hackers are the soldiers in this war and sometimes soldiers don't come back from wars alive. Israel is also the only one with both capability & will, so its not very likely anything will happen to our brave hacking soldiers.
They are second to none, they will shut down all the systems in Arab World if they choose to.
Same thing with other forms of terrorism. Hamas fires a few crude rockets at civilian areas, which don't kill or hurt anyone and Israel responds by dropping bombs on civilian structures. Of course the later of the two is not called terrorism for some odd reason!
Innocent civilians may be greatly harmed,and if it affects flights or health this will be disastrous and unforgiveable.This is not a game'because we can'..!? It will cause much irreversable animosity between people who had no axes to grind previously.It will just take ONE idiot to overstep the mark,and we may be in dire situation.
Stock markets are nothing more than a gigantic Ponzi Scheme.
Israel has sacrificed enough for the arabs, time for them to have a mere taste of the suffering they caused Israel.
Hannibal, keep up the good work. I appreciate it all the way accross the globe here in New York. Now lets see if they try to hack and release more info, I would really like to see how they will handle "the next stage".
...that is typical of the middle east.
At moments like that I am so proud to be Jewish!!!
Maybe Pro-Israeli hackers from around the world should unite and teach these mindless arabs to mind their own business. They can also contribute in bringing iran to it's knees.
Just proves they should live in one middle east in true and just peace.
Banks, airlines, stock markets...phtooey. That's for money grubbers. Monopoly by Parker Bros. is a much better game. Salaam/Shalom
israel developers are the best in the world, to mess with israel is silly to mess with them related to computers one must be complete nuts, israel is known for their computer skills,
Infantile??? Who started it?
The reasoning of a right wing Israeli is as follows. A person or persons target Israel or Israelis. This person or persons cannot be directly targetted by Israel for some reason so Israel will attack an innocent third party, usually one that they did not care for anyway. The idea is that the innocent third party, rather than being upset with Israel, should be upset with whoever upset Israe in the first place. For some reason this strategy is deear to the hears of many Israelis even though it has proven to work against them time and time again. It could be that it will motivate Israel's adult guardian toi intervene.
The more Israel, the Saudies and the Gulf Arabs damage each other, the better the rest of the world is going to be.
Way to shoot yourself in the foot and get the backlash on the chin. Lol at U.
The Saudis used to but a new homes for the families of suicide bombers after Israel bulldozed their old home. This stopped years ago when Hamas renounced suicide bombings, but surely there are other ways in which the Saudis can become more active.
Let them play these stupid games, and I mean both sides.
targeting and punishing innocent 3rd parties as revenge against real or imagined threats.
All need to chill out.
Mess with Israel & you get really hurt. Go IDF go.
It's an ego thing.
I can't wait to see how our little boys respond.
"what a bunch of mental defectives. brainwashed since birth to believe lie and hate automatically. It will never change" I suppose as this is an Israeli hack, it doesn't count?
This kind of cyber-terror from Saudi and other countries must not go ignored.
These aren't games, my friend. Imagine the results of bringing down the computers in an army command center, in a large hospital, in a fovenment ministry.
go read some history.
silly, childish, destructive behavior, probably a bunch of horny teenagers.