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Israel vs Anonymous The cyber-war begins, Israeli hackers hit back Israeli ‘strike force’ responds with pro-Israel content.

The Anonymous and other International hackers stepped up attempts to pull down Israeli sites over the weekend, with numerous attempted denial of service (DDoS) attacks against Israeli government sites.

Hacker sites listed numerous websites they claimed to have disabled, and several sites reported slowdowns on Saturday night, but nearly all the sites the hackers claimed to have taken down were operating normally.
But the cyber wars between Israeli and pro-Palestinian hackers heated up April 27th with government websites and stock market networks coming under fire in the most recent volley of online attacks.Several members of the group if they are part of the anonymous have said that the assault was being done in “solidarity” with Palestinians.

The Hackers, posting under the name of the international Anonymous group , announced that they would launch a massive attack on Israeli sites in a strike they called “#OpIsrael”.

Israeli hackers, under the name Israeli Elite Strike Force (@IsraeliElite) has declared WAR - a cyberwar against Anonymous' anti-Israel hack campaign, #OpIsrael. This is In response to Anonymous' escalation of attacks on April 7, Israeli Elite disabled dozens of sites within Pakistan, Iran, Syria and several north African states.

Despite reports of successful hacking, Israeli government officials appeared to be underwhelmed by the results of #OpIsrael's escalation.

Yitzhak Ben Yisrael of Israel's National Cyber Bureau stated in an interview with the Associated Press (AP):

"So far it is as was expected, there is hardly any real damage," Ben Yisrael said. "Anonymous doesn't have the skills to damage the country's vital infrastructure. And if that was its intention, then it wouldn't have announced the attack ahead of time. It wants to create noise in the media about issues that are close to its heart," he said.

Dr. Yitzchak Ben-Yisrael of the National Cyber Directorate at a recent conference (photo credit: Courtesy Yuval Ne'eman Workshop for Science, Technology, and Security of Tel Aviv University)

(11h37) : Hackers failing to cause major cyber-disruption, officials say -
Some government websites taken down temporarily, but most efforts by Anonymous to erase
Israel from the Internet repelled. :). Tous nos sites israéliens favoris fonctionnent à merveille
malgré les menaces de mega-attaques proférées par les hackers... Ce fiasco va ridiculiser ces
anti-israéliens et les rendre fous de rage...

EVENTS April 7th 2013

Israeli Elite ‏@IsraeliElite
7 Apr
TANGO DOWN http://www.sana.sy . Another Hit by our very own amenefus! BOW DOWN ENEMIES! @ynet @nana10 @maarivnrg #OpIsrael
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Israeli Elite ‏@IsraeliElite
7 Apr
TANGO DOWN http://indogenerations.com . This is one of hacker team trying to hit israel. Thank all our guys on efnet! @nana10 @ynet @maarivnrg
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Israeli Elite ‏@IsraeliElite
7 Apr
Iranian leaked email accounts courtesy of our very own Md5c http://pastebin.com/ey4Qj0qs BOW DOWN! @nana10 @ynet @maarivnrg #opIsrael
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Israeli Elite ‏@IsraeliElite
7 Apr
Hello friends. @amenefus says, http://reefnet.gov.sy TANGO DOWN. Long Live Israel! BOW DOWN! @ynet @nana10 @maarignrg #OpIsrael
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Israeli Elite ‏@IsraeliElite
7 Apr
Turkey is getting some, too! http://pastebin.com/QUBNW9S3 More leaks from our friend 6a9$on. BOW DOWN! @nana10 @ynet @maarivnrg #OpIsrael
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Israeli Elite ‏@IsraeliElite
7 Apr
Pakistani bank accounts TAKEN!!!! http://pastebin.com/dWGFp9T0 Have fun and thank our member 6a9$on. BOW DOWN! @ynet @nana10 @maarivnrg #OpIsrael
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Israeli Elite ‏@IsraeliElite
7 Apr
SyrianGov NameServer DOWN! http://ns1.scs-net.org affected syriaonline.sy, http://www.syreen.gov.sy and more! @ynet @maarivnrg @nana10
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Israeli Elite ‏@IsraeliElite7 Apr
Hizbollah website DOWN! http://www.moqawama.org Kudos to the new iEF recruits. Attack brought to you by amenefus @ynet @nana10 @maarivnrg
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