the group vowed, would "erase it from cyberspace" on April 7 for
"crimes" in Palestine.
Anonymous planned yet another cyberattack for just over a week before
Holocaust Remembrance Day.
There is now just one week left until the attack, dubbed OpIsrael,
that Anonymous declared in its video"message to Israel" back on March
4.
On the recording, a masked figure in a suit and tie reads a prepared
statement promising to erase Israel from cyberspace for "crimes in the
Palestinian territories."
The group specifically addresses the Israeli government, saying that
it has not "stopped...endless human right violations" and "illegal
settlements".
"You killed thousands of people, as in the last war against Gaza in
2014. You have shown that you do NOT respect international law," the
electronic voiceover says.
"We are coming back to punish you again," Anonymous video vows.
The video message, delivered in English with Arabic subtitles,
displays images from the Gaza conflict, including those showing the
air strikes on the territory during the Israel Defence Forces
Operation Protective Edge last summer.
"As we did many times, we'll take down your servers, government
websites, Israeli military websites, banks, and public institutions.
We'll erase you from cyber-space as we have every year, 7 April 2015,
will be an electronic holocaust," it adds.
Anonymous addressed the youth of Palestine, urging for it to "never
give up". "We are with you, and will continue to defend you," the
group vowed.
It then continued with a "message to the foolish Benjamin Netanyahu,
and all leaders in the Zionist entities" warning that cyber-attacks on
Israeli devices, websites and personal data will continue "until the
people of Palestine are free."
"We always say expect us but you always fail. We are unexpected; we'll
show on 7 April 2015 what the electronic holocaust mean..." the voice
says.
Anonymous slated its attack just a little over a week before Holocaust
Remembrance Day, known in Israel as Yom HaShoah, which is marked on
April 16.
Speaking to Newsweek magazine, Benjamin T. Decker, a senior
intelligence analyst at Tel Aviv-based risk consultancy The Levantine
Group, said that the Israeli government does not take Anonymous
seriously. He has called the whole electronic holocaust threat
"posturing" saying that over the four years that the group has carried
out OpIsrael, hacking techniques have become more sophisticated, but
there has been less damage caused.
"As the years have progressed we have seen that, despite their
increasing sophistication in hacking techniques, we have seen less
damage against Israeli cyber-infrastructures, largely due to Israel's
pioneering of most cyber-warfare tactics, both offensive and
defensive," Decker told the magazine.
In April 2013 the hacktivist group claimed that a similar OpIsrael
attack caused $3billion worth of damage to Israel, when it targeted
over 100,000 websites, 40,000 Facebook pages, 5,000 Twitter accounts
and 30,000 Israeli bank accounts.
The government, however, said that there were no major disruptions.
The past summer alone, Anonymous targeted Israel several times
protesting Israel's military incursion in Gaza.
In a wave of attacks against Israeli government websites it took down
"hundreds" of websites portals, including those of Mossad and the IDF.
Most of the attacks were repelled within a few hours.
Anonymous generally uses DDOS (distributed denial of service attacks)
that overload a website with fake requests, making it unavailable for
legitimate users.
Israel has been severely criticized for its political decisions amid
the 2014 war in Gaza, which claimed the lives of more than 2,140
Palestinians - most of them civilians - and over 70 Israelis, many of
whom were soldiers. The conflict ended with a truce between Israel and
Hamas on August 26.
Anonymous launched its first OpIsrael cyber-attacks in November 2012
during Operation P.
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