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Israeli officer reveals intricate details of IDF’s first ever cyberattack

Posted on October 17, 2022 by Dissent

Yoav Zitun reports:

Second Lieutenant B. was a young officer in the IDF’s Military Intelligence Directorate during the 1990s, and was the person who planned and executed the army first ever cyberattack.

[…]

Instead of waiting for a bug in the enemy’s cyber system and “breaking in” during the short time window, the tactic the IDF had adopted prior, Lieutenant B. and his team wanted to enter through a blind spot, take what they needed and exit before they could be noticed.
The target they were after at the time was one of five most wanted for the Intelligence Directorate.
Read more at ynet.

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