ISRAEL (VINnews) — The Iron Dome system, famous for its extremely high success rate (usually above 90%), has underperformed this week, and a group of notorious Arab hackers is taking credit.
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According to the Jerusalem Post, “Anonymous Sudan” claims that it infiltrated Israeli rocket warning systems Tuesday, including the Iron Dome, around the same time that a barrage of rockets was launched from Gaza.
A total of 22 rockets were fired from Gaza. Of these, only four were intercepted, with 16 landing in open fields and two hitting an urban area. According to the IDF, when combining these numbers with other rockets fired, the Iron Dome had a success rate of around 71% Tuesday, much lower than its typical 90-95%. The military is investigating the reasons for the unusually poor results.
Meanwhile, the Anonymous Sudan group took credit on Telegram for disabling the websites of four rocket warning services. All four sites were confirmed to be down on Tuesday, at least at some point.
The hackers claimed they had taken down so many alert systems that the Iron Dome was not receiving full alerts, thus preventing it from intercepting its usual percentage of rockets.
“Never in the history of [the] Iron Dome has such a large proportion of missiles been allowed to enter,” Anonymous Sudan wrote.
Referencing the disabling of the sites, they wrote: “This is one of the reasons for the poor performance of Iron Dome today.”
They went even further and suggested that they could have prevented every rocket interception. They claimed that the reason even four rockets were intercepted at all “is that we were a little late in the attack.”
“We sincerely apologize that we are a bit late in bringing down the alarm system, due to the current weakness of the Internet in Sudan, and unfortunately there is a great deal of outage,” the group wrote over Telegram.
Who is Anonymous Sudan?
Anonymous Sudan has taken credit for several significant cyberattacks against Israel in recent months. On April 27, they took credit for wide-ranging power outages throughout Israel. The group also claimed responsibility for an April cyberattack that struck multiple large Israeli banks.
They have also taken down Israeli news sites, such as The Jerusalem Post, KAN and i24.
They reportedly struck the website of cybersecurity firm Check Point as well as that of United Hatzalah last month.
Maybe if the IDF focused on their responsibilities as opposed to attending anti government protests, this wouldn’t happen
to quote Dovid Hamelech ” If Hashem will not watch a city, the watchers toil in vain.”
If they indeed hacked, the anti missiles of iron dome would not have hit one rocket from Hamas.
Don’t believe what the Arabs say, they love to lie.
It’s not helpful to publicize such speculations , but I am sure that בעזרת ה israel will find a selection very fast & easy so their enemies shouldn’t celebrate
The warning system has a web-site:This is most probabaly not connected to the digital electronic system that relays radar information to the Iron Dome system to fire rockets, for obvious reasons. Sederot always had a lower rocket interception rate, because there is less time to react.
Start up nation?