From rocket alert apps to government websites, cyberspace has become the stage for a proxy war. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SINGAPORE - The Red Alert phone app was designed to alert Israeli residents when enemy missiles were headed towards them but last Sunday, it suddenly started sending notifications that sounded like threats.
One of them - an app with more than a million downloads on the Google Play Store - carried a note by its developer to say a review dated Oct 7 found that it was hit by a “coordinated, worldwide distributed denial-of-service attack on our service”, resulting in users being unable to receive notifications.Oct 7 was alsoafter gunmen from Palestinian group Hamas launched a surprise attack that left 250 Israelis dead. In retaliation, Israel launched attacks that left more than 230 Gazans dead.
According to FalconFeeds.io, several Israeli government websites were believed to be crippled by cyber attacks, with one hacker group shutting down 20 sites in just one day.
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