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Hamas 'Honey Trap' Dupes Israeli Soldiers (securityweek.com)
wiredmikey quotes Security Week: The smartphones of dozens of Israeli soldiers were hacked by Hamas militants pretending to be attractive young women online, an Israeli military official said Wednesday. Using fake profiles on Facebook with alluring photos, Hamas members contacted the soldiers via groups on the social network, luring them into long chats, the official told journalists on condition of anonymity.
Dozens of the predominantly lower-ranked soldiers were convinced enough by the honey trap to download fake applications which enabled Hamas to take control of their phones, according to the official.
Dozens of the predominantly lower-ranked soldiers were convinced enough by the honey trap to download fake applications which enabled Hamas to take control of their phones, according to the official.
How will Israel ever recover?!
The hacked phones gave up their GPS and call history data. This data could be used to plan attacks or kidnapping.
The specific suggestions in the previous email are valid.
There are also possibilities of blackmail if they learn something about the soldiers. Then there is just the tactical value of having more information about the enemy - having the cells suddenly turn off might be in indication of an impending operation.
Hamas only has power because Israel continues to tolerate it. If Hamas were to become an actual threat, Israel would tell Hamas' protectors (UN, EU) to go fuck themselves and destroy it.
I'd rather the Hamas terrorists sit around hacking Israeli army enlisted men's smartphones than strap explosives to themselves and go kill innocent civilians in populated cities.
Exploding bus = brutally murdered people and body parts everywhere while the terrorists and their sympathizers dance in the streets and Iran pays them.
Hacked smartphone = nobody dead.
This applies to all terrorists, be they Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, French-muslims, etc.
Please, terrorists, do go on and continue your oh-so-super hacking.
Swords to plowshares indeed.
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Interesting that you picked the example of Gaza for your headline. That's the area that Israel FULLY VACATED a few years ago, to the extent of relocating Jewish graves. What did they get in return? Rocket attacks on Sderot and other border areas. Had Hamas eliminated all attacks from Gaza, they would have gotten more settlement freezes in the West Bank
The real dirty secret is that all Pali groups want to wipe out Israel as a Jewish state, and replace it w/ an Arab Islamic state. The only difference b/w Hamas vs Fatah vs Islamic Jihad is whether the resulting country would look like Saudi Arabia or Iran or Saddam's Iraq. The clause in Hamas' charter
'The Day of Judgment will not come about until Moslems fight Jews and kill them. Then, the Jews will hide behind rocks and trees, and the rocks and trees will cry out: O Moslem, there is a Jew hiding behind me, come and kill him.' (Article 7)
is something directly taken out of the Hadiths. And before you start playing the 'this is an inauthentic hadith', it's taken from Sahih Bukhari, which is one of the primary 'sahih' (authentic) hadiths.
Yep. There are lots of ways of using data from the phones. Establish patterns of movement, and then be able to spot when movement patterns change. Spot when phones are turned of en-masse. Identify family members in order to kidnap or otherwise coerce the military person into changing behavior for one's benefit. Possibly even get lucky, if the military member uses the phone to access sensitive servers through some kind of VPN, steal their credentials.
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
Why attack somewhere named for it's strippers?