Posted on 05/02/23
| News Source: JPost
The hacker group Anonymous Sudan claimed to have hacked Israeli rocket warning systems, including for the Iron Dome, on Tuesday amid a barrage of rockets fired from the Gaza Strip.
The hacker group said on its Telegram channel that it had succeeded in taking down the websites of the rocket warning services Cumta, Red Alert, Halamish and Evigilo, as well as targeting some of their smartphone apps.
All four sites are still down at the time of writing, though smartphone apps seem to be functional.
It further said that it had taken down so many alert systems that the Iron Dome, Israel's primary air defense system, wasn't getting its full alerts, thus preventing it from intercepting everything.
While the exact success rate of the Iron Dome in this recent rocket barrage is unclear, at least two rockets did strike the urban area of Sderot.
However, the hacker group did issue what it described as an apology for this most recent cyberattack, saying it should have been faster.
"We sincerely apologize that we are a bit late in bringing down the alarm system, due to the current weakness of the Internet in Sudan, and unfortunately there is a great deal of outage."
Anonymous Sudan, apologizing for being late to hack Israeli warning systems
"We sincerely apologize that we are a bit late in bringing down the alarm system, due to the current weakness of the Internet in Sudan, and unfortunately there is a great deal of outage," the group wrote over Telegram.
They further said they are working on more attacks on Israel's Internet, noting that they have achieved success thus far.
"We are 100% sure that there have been disturbances in the Internet," Anonymous Sudan wrote. "Expect an Internet outage at any moment."