JAKARTA - The number of Iranian cyber attacks against Israel has skyrocketed since the launch of the US-Israeli attack on Iran this year, a senior Israeli security official said on Monday.
The director general of the Israeli National Cyber Directorate, Yossi Karadi, told the German newspaper Die Welt, in June 2025 during Israel's military operation against Iran, Israeli authorities recorded about 1,600 hostile cyber incidents.
By the same month in 2026, the number had jumped to around 4,800 incidents, he told the newspaper.
"Some groups are very skilled," Karadi said, according to the text of the interview in German, launching Al Arabiya from Reuters (29/6).
"We can handle it, but we have to take it seriously. Unlike in the kinetic realm, there is no ceasefire in cyberspace," he said.
Karadi further said the attack was aimed at systems used by Israel's critical infrastructure, central organizations, small to medium-sized companies, and the general public, mentioning law firms and accounting firms as some of the small companies affected.
"So far - and hopefully it will remain so - we have managed to repel attacks on critical infrastructure," he said.
"Companies that are more easily penetrated often end up with the deletion of their computer systems," he said, without naming names.
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