Cybersecurity Directorate: Since the beginning of the war there have been 50 incidents of hacking of surveillance cameras

“In particular, attempts were made to gain control of CCTV cameras to spy on people and collect intelligence with the aim of their physical destruction. Fortunately, this failed. Under the leadership of the Shin Bet, serious work is being carried out in this direction, and further attempts are also doomed to failure,” said the head of the department, Yossi Karadi, in an interview with reporters.

According to Karadi, since the beginning of the war, 50 cases of hacking of video surveillance systems in public places have been identified and stopped. “We are not talking about 50 individual cameras, but about large-scale systemic attacks. The Iranians realized that the protection of cameras is extremely weak, and having control over them, they can create a high-quality intelligence tool. So they launched a real hunt for cameras, and unfortunately, not without success. A significant number of cameras were compromised, but not all of them were operationally important. In incidents with security implications, we were able to neutralize most of the threats,” he emphasized.

Also, since the beginning of the war, the consequences of 50 cases of penetration into corporate systems and destruction of critical data, which led to the shutdown of organizations, have been identified and eliminated. and resolved the consequences of 50 incidents, during which attackers managed to penetrate corporate systems and destroy critical data, paralyzing the ongoing activities of organizations. Most of the affected organizations are small.

Thousands of attempts of such attacks were recorded, including against national infrastructure, and 525 organizations received preliminary warnings that they had become the target of hackers. 3,180 phishing infrastructures through which data theft attempts were made were eliminated, and the time from launch to detection and elimination was reduced from 6 hours to 31 minutes.