A pro-Israel hacking group launched a counter-attack against the Anonymous hacking group, exposing a number of their members by gaining control of their web cams. The exposure came a few days after the hackers launched the “Op Israel” attack on Israeli websites, April 7.
The Israeli hackers, known as Israeli Elite Force posted photographs and contact information of a number of the hackers who were attacking Israeli websites. According to the Times of Israel:
A hacker called Buddhax, a member of the Israeli Elite Force hacking group, posted the information on the IEF’s Facebook page Wednesday, two days after anti-Israel hackers attempted to repeat last year’s mass attacks on Israeli sites. …
While Anonymous hackers were attacking Israeli sites, Buddhax traced the IP addresses of some of the attackers and broke into at least 16 computers, taking screenshots, scraping computers for logins and passwords of online accounts and using their webcams to take photos of the hackers, Buddhax said. He sent a message to each hacker reading “Next time don’t take part in OpIsrael. We know who you are. We know where you are. Long live Israel!”
Below is a screenshot from the video of Israeli Elite Force’s handiwork.
According to a report in Israel Today, the retaliatory attacks were meant to send a message to the anti-Israel hackers to “think twice next time before they try to attack Israel.”
iHLS – an Israeli homeland security focused website – “the OpIsrael attack proved to be less than impressive, to say the least.” After months of threatening a repeat assault on Israel’s cyberspace the OpIsrael hackers managed to do little real damage.
Several dozen less important websites were shut down and defaced with “public relations” imagery representing OpIsrael; lists of credit card numbers were published online – most of which were stolen a long time ago and no longer in use; lists of e-mail addresses were published with their associated passwords, although most addresses were hacked during previous attacks and the passwords were out-of-date; several failed attacks were launched against government websites.
The Anonymous group had previously attacked Israeli websites on April 7, 2013, but also with little to show for their efforts. This time, however, they paid a price with some losing their anonymity.
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