DUBAI: Hackers targeted the website of an Israeli newspaper early Monday, replacing its content with an image that threatened a site linked to Israel’s undeclared nuclear weapons program on the anniversary of the assassination of a chief. Iranian general,
Although neither group immediately claimed responsibility, the picture was posted Jerusalem PostThe website of the U.S. includes a missile that comes down from a long ringed fist. Qasim Sulemani, Iranian General a. killed by US drone attack Monday in Iraq two years ago.
The image included a detonated target from a recent Iranian military drill designed to look like the Shimon Peres Negev nuclear research center near the city of Dimona.
The facility is already home to decades-old underground laboratories that reprocess spent rods of the reactor to obtain weapons-grade plutonium for Israel’s nuclear bomb program.
Under its policy of nuclear ambiguity, Israel neither confirms nor denies having a nuclear weapon.
The Jerusalem Post acknowledged in a tweet that it was a target of hackers.
“We are aware of the direct threat to Israel as well as the apparent hacking of our website,” the English-language newspaper wrote. “We are working to resolve this issue; Thank you readers for your patience and understanding.”
There was no immediate reaction from the Israeli government. The hack comes after Israel’s former military intelligence chief publicly admitted in late December that his country was involved in the assassination of Soleimani.
Iran also did not immediately admit to the hack in the early hours of Monday. However, in recent days the country has intensified the commemoration of the martyr Revolutionary Guard General. Memorial services were to be held on Monday to commemorate his death.
as the head of kuds, or Jerusalem, the Army of the Revolutionary Guard, Soleimani led all of his expeditionary forces and frequently stopped between Iraq, Lebanon, and Syria.
Members of the Quds Force have deployed in Syria’s long war to support President Bashar Assad, as well as in Iraq in the wake of the 2003 US invasion that toppled the dictator. Saddam Hussein, a longtime enemy of Tehran.
Soleimani rose to prominence in Iraq and Syria by advising forces fighting the Islamic State group on Assad’s side.
US officials say the guards, led by Soleimani, taught Iraqi militants how to make and use particularly deadly roadside bombs against US troops after the invasion of Iraq. Iran has denied this. Soleimani himself is popular among many Iranians, who see him as a hero fighting Iran’s enemies abroad.
Although neither group immediately claimed responsibility, the picture was posted Jerusalem PostThe website of the U.S. includes a missile that comes down from a long ringed fist. Qasim Sulemani, Iranian General a. killed by US drone attack Monday in Iraq two years ago.
The image included a detonated target from a recent Iranian military drill designed to look like the Shimon Peres Negev nuclear research center near the city of Dimona.
The facility is already home to decades-old underground laboratories that reprocess spent rods of the reactor to obtain weapons-grade plutonium for Israel’s nuclear bomb program.
Under its policy of nuclear ambiguity, Israel neither confirms nor denies having a nuclear weapon.
The Jerusalem Post acknowledged in a tweet that it was a target of hackers.
“We are aware of the direct threat to Israel as well as the apparent hacking of our website,” the English-language newspaper wrote. “We are working to resolve this issue; Thank you readers for your patience and understanding.”
There was no immediate reaction from the Israeli government. The hack comes after Israel’s former military intelligence chief publicly admitted in late December that his country was involved in the assassination of Soleimani.
Iran also did not immediately admit to the hack in the early hours of Monday. However, in recent days the country has intensified the commemoration of the martyr Revolutionary Guard General. Memorial services were to be held on Monday to commemorate his death.
as the head of kuds, or Jerusalem, the Army of the Revolutionary Guard, Soleimani led all of his expeditionary forces and frequently stopped between Iraq, Lebanon, and Syria.
Members of the Quds Force have deployed in Syria’s long war to support President Bashar Assad, as well as in Iraq in the wake of the 2003 US invasion that toppled the dictator. Saddam Hussein, a longtime enemy of Tehran.
Soleimani rose to prominence in Iraq and Syria by advising forces fighting the Islamic State group on Assad’s side.
US officials say the guards, led by Soleimani, taught Iraqi militants how to make and use particularly deadly roadside bombs against US troops after the invasion of Iraq. Iran has denied this. Soleimani himself is popular among many Iranians, who see him as a hero fighting Iran’s enemies abroad.
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