Tel Aviv municipality site hit by cyberattack

A group of threat actors based in Iraq managed to break into the Tel Aviv municipality site and take it down.

It comes a week after a similar cyberattack on Israeli NTA Metropolitan Mass Transit System Ltd., which is responsible for the design and construction of a mass transit network in the coastal town in occupied Palestine.

Sabereen News, a Telegram news channel associated with Iraqi Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), reported that the group, known as al-Tahera, carried out the operation on Monday.

“Do not work, it's suspended by order of General Qassem Soleimani,” the message shown after the hack read on the Tel Aviv Municipality site.

Israel’s NTA Metropolitan Mass Transit System Ltd, the company building the light rail network for the Tel Aviv area, said last week that its website was temporarily disrupted by a foreign cyberattack.

Sabereen News said a group based in the Arab country targeted the company last Monday, affecting its operating networks, control monitors, and servers.

Last April, the website of Israel’s Airports Authority was also knocked offline due to a denial of service attack.

In the same time, Bandai Namco, publisher of Dark Souls, Elden Ring and Soulcalibur, has been hit by a ransomware attack.