Gaza Slaughter Sparks Surge in DDoS Attacks Against Israel

Daily Slave
August 7, 2014

Below is an interesting article from ZDNet which shows statistics on recent distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks targeting Israel.  As Israel shelled the Gaza Strip killing thousands of people, the number of DDoS attacks against Israel increased substantially.

The fact that there was a significant increase in this type of attack against Israel is a good indicator of public opinion.  If people decided to spend the time to attack Israeli websites, it proves that there are quite a few people around the world who are disgusted with what the evil Jews have done.

From ZDNet:

As conflict between Israel and the Palestinian militant Islamist organisation Hamas escalates, new research has revealed the impact politics has had on cyberattack trends.

Tension between countries and changing political landscapes can now often be linked to cybercrime campaigns worldwide. From constant spats between the US and China to increased targeting of Syrian and Thai targets during political unrest, digital weaponry is now a key tool for groups to broadcast their own political messages, spy on governmental agencies and steal valuable data.

In a new report released by Arbor Networks, anonymized traffic and DDoS attack data from over 290 ISPs that have deployed Arbor’s Peakflow SP product — collated and analyzed as part of Arbor’s ATLAS initiative — it appears that DDoS attacks are rising in number and volume as a result of the Israel-Hamas conflict.

The graph below depicts the number of reported DDoS attacks initiated against Israel daily over the 1 June to 3 August period this year:

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are used to flood a website or service with traffic to the point systems cannot cope, denying other users access to the website. Arbor detected a rise in the number of DDoS attacks targeting Israel in the first week of July, going from an average of 30 attacks per day to an average of 150 attacks initiated per day in July — peaking at 429 attacks on July 21st.