\r\n\tHackers broke into an Israeli 'defense' ministry computer via an email attachment tainted with malicious software that looked like it had been sent by the Zionist regime's Shin Bet secret security service, an Israeli cyber security firm said on Sunday.
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\r\n\tAviv Raff, chief technology officer at Seculert, said the hackers earlier this month took over 15 computers, one of them belonging to Israel's Civil Administration that monitors Palestinians in Israeli-occupied territory.
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\r\n\tRaff claimed that Palestinians were suspected to be behind the cyber attack, citing similarities to a cyber assault on Israeli computers waged more than a year ago from a server in the Gaza Strip.
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\r\n\tHe admitted to Reuters however that the latest attack was conducted from a server in the United States.
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\r\n\tIsraeli officials have declined to comment on Raff's findings.
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\r\n\tSecurlet had not determined what the hackers did after the initial infection with "Xtreme RAT" software, Raff said.
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\r\n\t"All we know is at least one computer at the Civil Administration was in control of the attackers; what they did we don't know."<\/p>\r\n
\r\n\t Based on Raff's analysis the 15 computers were in the hackers' grip for at least several days after the Jan. 15 dispatch of the email, which included an attachment about ex- Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon who had just died.
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\r\n\tXtreme RAT is a remote access trojan, which gives hackers complete control of an infected machine. They can steal information, load additional malicious software onto the network or use the compromised computer as a beachhead from which to conduct reconnaissance and attempt to gain deeper access into the network, Raff said.<\/p>","content_source":null,"content_url":null,"content_columns":"0","content_date_start":"2014-01-27 12:56:42","content_date_finish":"2014-01-27 12:56:42","content_date_register":"2014-01-27 12:56:42","content_date_last_edit":"0000-00-00 00:00:00","content_show_img":"1","content_show_details":"1","content_show_related_img":"1","content_show_slider":"1","content_show_title_slider":"1","content_comment":"0","content_score":"0","content_recorded":"0","content_confirmed":"1","content_status":"1","content_kind":"0","old_id":"121621","tag_id":null,"tag_word":null,"tag_service":null,"tag_total":null,"tag_soundex":null,"attach_token":"2783216836","attach_date_register":"2014-01-27 12:56:48","attach_id":"116856","attach_file_ext":"jpg","attach_file_header":"image\/jpeg","attach_img_type":"2","attach_img_width":"122","attach_img_height":"77","attach_file_media":"1","attach_show_watermark":"0","score_average":null,"score_count":null,"score_date_last":null,"visit_count":"217","visit_date_last":"2025-05-09 04:47:01","attach_title":"Israeli war ministry computer hacked","node_title":"news","ot_node_left_right":"[{\"node_id\":122, \"left\":2, \"right\":53}]"}]]