Israel is the start-up nation, but the news coming out of Silicon Wadi is no longer just for investors or techies - from offensive cyber services to disinformation - Israeli tech is becoming more political. This is why Haaretz has decided to launch its new tech and cyber vertical, to keep you informed with all the latest news and analysis.
Proof of the importance of this field of journalism became clear just this week. Following several reports by Oded Yaron and Gur Megiddo, Israeli intelligence company Cellebrite announced it would stop selling its phone hacking technology to China.
Amitai Ziv, also revealed in an exclusive report, that a complex cyberattack, most likely state-sponsored, successfully hacked the phones of Israeli cryptocurrency executives, stealing their identities. Israel’s Mossad and Shin Bet have (allegedly) been called in to help investigate. The breach, Ziv explains, follows a general uptick in cyber crimes buoyed by organized crime going digital during the coronavirus.
We also saw a much simpler target: The Twitter account of Sheldon Adelson’s pro-Netanyahu newspaper Israel Hayom. Hackers managed to tweet out some devastating fake news about the Trump presidency, which, while quickly contained, could have done major economic and political damage.
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