Iranian cyberattacks on Israel surged in 2026, cyber chief says

The number of Iranian cyberattacks against Israel has shot up since the launch of the US-Israeli war with Iran this year, Yossi Karadi, director general of the National Cyber Directorate, was quoted as saying on Monday.

Karadi told German newspaper Die Welt that in June 2025, during the first round of war between Israel and Iran, Israel’s authorities registered around 1,600 hostile cyber incidents.

During the same month in 2026, the number had jumped to some 4,800 incidents, he told the paper.

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