Researchers: Israeli military networks breached by hackers

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http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=24913

Reuters and Israel Hayom Staff
April 19, 2015

Hackers sent emails to various military addresses that purported to show 
breaking military news, or, in some cases, a clip featuring "Girls of the 
IDF" • Researchers: Hackers were likely Arabic-speaking programmers, based 
on their language settings.

Hackers have managed to penetrate computer networks associated with the 
Israeli military in an espionage campaign that skillfully packages 
existing attack software with trick emails, according to security 
researchers at Blue Coat Systems Inc.

The four-month-old effort, most likely by Arabic-speaking programmers, 
shows how the Middle East continues to be a hotbed for cyber espionage and 
how widely the ability to carry off such attacks has spread, the 
researchers said.

Waylon Grange, a researcher with the Blue Coat who discovered the 
campaign, said the vast majority of the hackers' software was cobbled 
together from widely available tools, such as the remote-access Trojan 
called Poison Ivy.

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