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This weekend, Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) launched an airstrike at Hamas's Cyber HQ in an apparently first of its kind real-time physical response by a nation state targeting the source of a cyber attack (as far as we know).
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has launched a physical attack on Hamas in response to an alleged cyber attack. A strike launched by Israeli forces targeted a building in the Gaza Strip that was hosting Hamas cyber army.
The IDF adopted a hybrid approach, it first stopped the cyber attack carried out by Hamas, then once it [had] localized the source of the offensive launched an airstrike.
This is simultaneously an evolution in hybrid-warfare and a return to levels of physical violence in the conflict between Hamas and Israel that hasn't been seen for five years.
The United States has reserved the right to retaliate similarly against cyber attacks since 2011, but has not done so.
The US had considered kinetic responses to a cyber attack:
State-backed hacking and physical warfare have been on a slow but steady path toward convergence for about two decades, and both information security and warfare researchers say that it was only a matter of time before a nation launched a kinetic attack against enemy hackers. "When I joined the very first Cyber Command in April 1999, we were talking about that as a serious thing in case it was needed," says Jason Healey, a former staffer in the George W. Bush White House and current cyberconflict researcher at Columbia University. "I wouldn't say we necessarily had plans for it, but we were thinking it through."
That's an expensive wrench
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 08 2019, @03:04PM
lol, all those Russian "hackers" who are so l337 they've even mastered the technique of shitposting on Failbook, something that takes decades of specialized training and billions of dollars to even attempt.
Yeah, because the two capitalist parties were best buddies before those l337 Failbook shitposters. She Lost, get over it, try to nominate somebody better than Biden so the D team doesn't fucking lose to a pussy grabbing fascist jackass again. Why is it sex scandals only matter when it's a Democrat anyway? We're just fine with pussy grabbing Republicans apparently but it's the end of the fucking world, get a special prosecutor and start impeachment proceedings if a Democrat is involved in a sex scandal. Eh but should be amusing when creepy uncle Joe gets the nomination. Who's going to be the next president? A pussy grabber or a pussy sniffer? jeezus
Meanwhile, a fascist state supported by both parties finds yet another excuse to blow shit up in the ghetto they've forced their undesirable untermensch into, and we must support that regime, because it's anti-Semitic if we aren't constantly blowing up Moooooooooooslems.