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Israeli Soldiers Tricked Into Installing Malware by Hamas Agents Posing as Women (zdnet.com) 75

Posted by msmash from the what-in-the-world dept.
Members of the Hamas Palestinian militant group have posed as young teenage girls to lure Israeli soldiers into installing malware-infected apps on their phones, a spokesperson for the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) said today. From a report: Some soldiers fell for the scam, but IDF said they detected the infections, tracked down the malware, and then took down Hamas' hacking infrastructure. IDF said Hamas operatives created Facebook, Instagram, and Telegram accounts and then approached IDF soldiers. According to IDF spokesperson Brigadier General Hild Silberman, Hamas agents posed as new Israeli immigrants in order to excuse their lacking knowledge of the Hebrew language. IDF investigators said they tracked accounts for six characters used in the recent social engineering campaign. The accounts were named Sarah Orlova, Maria Jacobova, Eden Ben Ezra, Noa Danon, Yael Azoulay, and Rebecca Aboxis, respectively. Soldiers who engaged in conversations were eventually lured towards installing one of three chat apps, named Catch & See, Grixy, and Zatu, where the agents promised to share more photos.
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  • Wow (Score:5, Funny)

    by nospam007 ( 722110 ) * on Monday February 17, 2020 @10:35AM (#59735658)

    Bearded militants posing as teenage girls?

    There's an Oscar waiting somewhere.

  • Ha ha (Score:5, Insightful)

    by nagora ( 177841 ) on Monday February 17, 2020 @10:36AM (#59735664)

    It's pretty small payback for stealing an entire country, but it's something I suppose.

    • It's pretty small payback for stealing an entire country, but it's something I suppose.

      A few years from now, we’ll find out that farmersonly.com was actually an undercover action run by Chippewa nationalists.

  • I'd be more concerned about your selection strategy after that.

  • Most online dating sites are not populated by young women. They're populated by bots, variants of the old "Eliza" program designed to lure the men into signing up for paid websites where the "contact" will never be found, but there are even more bots, for which you are now paying a monthly subscription fee. I walked a few younger colleagues through the scam and how it works.

    Populating such an online site with profiles with pictures of pretty girls seems, well, an elementary extension of the same kind of abu

  • Just who in their right minds run their defence infrastructure from a generic Android phone. A custom-build hardware-software solution run on totally locked-down hardware is what's required.

    • many armed forces do....
      Israel in this case.
      USA when they posted the workouts with gps coordinates in Iraq and Afghanistan
      Russia posting invasion pictures on instagram of parts of the Ukraine.

      I bet we can find more, but these are the one's I can think of right now

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  • IDF said they detected the infections, tracked down the malware, and then took down Hamas' hacking infrastructure

    Israel's usual approach to taking down their enemies should be used by the civilized world more often.

    I hope, they used it themselves in this case too.

  • 1. On base, at port, on duty? Read a paper book. Study from paper books. DVD, blurry movies. Keep busy.
    No international internet on duty. Swap out troops much more often so everyone gets contact again but on their own home networks only.

    2. Educate troops on the slag, terms, look, words, comments, images.. Get the troops to report all internet contact attempts. Reporting gets rewards. Make it a game.
    Recall "Cherbourg Project" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org] and how
    "groups of two at differe

  • Lesson is - Don't think with your cock. Lesson is thousands of years old. They really should have known better.

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