FBI Warns U.S. Companies of Cyber Terror

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http://freebeacon.com/national-security/fbi-warns-of-anti-israel-cyber-attacks/

By Bill Gertz
The Washington Free Beacon
April 2, 2015

The FBI is warning U.S. companies that cyber terrorists from the Middle 
East and North Africa are planning to conduct cyber attacks against 
Israeli and Jewish interests next week.

The Bureau stated in a security notice to U.S. industry on Sunday that, as 
of early March, “several extremist hacking groups indicated they would 
participate in a forthcoming operation, #OpIsrael, which will target 
Israeli and Jewish Web sites.”

“Given the perceived connections between the government of Israel and 
Israeli financial institutions, and those of the United States, #OpIsrael 
participants may also shift their operations to target vulnerable 
U.S.-based financial targets or Jewish-oriented organizations within the 
United States,” the FBI warning said. “Based on historical attacks, the 
FBI assesses that attacks which may spawn from #OpIsrael to target 
U.S.-based systems will likely constitute only a small percentage of 
overall activity.”

The FBI said members of at least two extremist hacking groups it did not 
identify are currently working to recruit hackers for the attacks next 
week, which will coincide with the second anniversary of the first 
#OpIsrael cyber attacks. Those were launched on April 7, 2013, and timed 
to coincide with Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, which begins the 
evening of April 15.

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