Israel responds to an alleged Hamas cyberattack with an airstrike, marking the first time a country has reacted with immediate military force to a cyberattack
*** The Israeli military announced on Twitter … Lilach Baumer / CTech - 24/7 : Israel Bombed Hamas Building to Thwart Cyber Attack Wall Street Journal : Israel, Gaza Trade Blows in Deadly Exchanges Josh Breiner / Reuters : Palestinian Report: Israel and Hamas Reach Cease-fire; Israeli Army Lifts Restrictions Tweets: @idf : CLEARED FOR RELEASE: We thwarted an attempted Hamas cyber offensive against Israeli targets. Following our successful cyber defensive operation, we targeted a building where the Hamas cyber operatives work. HamasCyberHQ.exe has been removed. pic.twitter.com/AhgKjiOqS7 Catalin Cimpanu / @campuscodi : Here is the video released by the IDF showing the air-strike against the building housing Hamas cyber forces. https://twitter.com/... Catalin Cimpanu / @campuscodi : In a first, Israel responds to Hamas hackers with an air-strikeIsrael military said it bombed building housing Hamas cyber operatives.https://www.zdnet.com/ ... https://twitter.com/... @mikko : I think we just crossed a line we haven't crossed before. https://twitter.com/... Sheera Frenkel / @sheeraf : The Israeli military is saying they took out a building where Hamas ran a cyber attack aimed at Israeli targets. Lots of questions here, starting with: was anyone in the building and killed when it was targeted? What was the Hamas cyber offensive? And is this setting a precedent? https://twitter.com/... Bilal Zuberi / @bznotes : This is int'g. And pretty dangerous if you consider how often nation states pursue cyber attacks against each other. https://twitter.com/... Rendition Infosec / @renditionsec : Israel responds to Hamas hackers with an air-strike. “...they said they first stopped the attack online, and only then responded with an air-strike.” Hacking back just went kinetic. https://www.zdnet.com/... via @ZDNet & @campuscodi Stefano Zanero / @raistolo : Woah. Israel seems to have applied the same doctrine advocated by many states in considering a kinetic attack justified in response to a cyber attack. https://twitter.com/... Thaddeus E. Grugq / @thegrugq : “After dealing with the cyber dimension, the Air Force dealt with it in the physical dimension. At this point in time, Hamas has no cyber operational capabilities."I'm very curious: what was the attack that was stopped. Defacement? DDoS? Carding?https://www.zdnet.com/ ... Catalin Cimpanu / @campuscodi : @lukOlejnik To be clear, the US is the first country that used military force to respond to hackers, when it killed ISIL top hacker Junaid Hussain.https://dod.defense.gov/ ... Catalin Cimpanu / @campuscodi : The difference is that the US' response took months to plan and carry out, and was more of an assassination.The difference here is that Israel had a retaliatory response in near real-time —which counts more towards a classic military response in a time of war.