Gonjeshke Darande

EXCERPT

After going quiet for nearly a year, a potent hacking group with suspected links to the Israeli government reemerged online Monday, an indication that as the conflict between Israel and Hamas drags on, digital actors could play a greater role.

As the deadly violence between Israeli and Hamas fighters continues to unfold, the bulk of the fighting continues to be kinetic military operations. But since fighting began Saturday, a flurry of shadowy “hacktivist” groups on both sides of the conflict have knocked websites offline with distributed denial-of-service attacks, defaced some websites and triggered false alarms on mobile phone apps warning of incoming attacks...

On Monday, Gonjeshke Darande — “Predatory Sparrow” in Persian — posted the first message to its Telegram channel since January, along with a similar post on X, formerly Twitter. “Do you think this is scary?” the group wrote in Persian, according to a Google Translation. “We returned. We hope you’re following what is happening in Gaza.” ...

Source:

https://cyberscoop.com/predatory-sparrow-israel-gaza-cyber/