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Source: https://www.ynetnews.com/magazine/article/sja8fftqi
Israeli Officer Reveals Details of IDF's First Cyberattack
(Ynet News) Yoav Zitun - Since the 1990s, Lt. B. has been masterminding secret infiltrations into Israel's enemies' cyber systems, which grant the IDF access to valuable information, without risking troops and while remaining under the radar. For his ability to think outside of the box, he was awarded the Israel Defense Prize for "developing a system that has a creative technological solution to an operational problem of great importance." The enemy was in the midst of building an advanced missile arsenal, and developing an innovative cyber system that it was planning to use for military purposes. For two years, B. and his comrades in IDF Military Intelligence recreated the system the enemy had at hand at the time, running endless tests to make sure what they had developed was accurate. They searched for any point of weakness, a breach in the system. The IDF team entered the target's system in an operation that lasted only a few minutes. Since then, the tech gateway that B. and his team created has grown to be more advanced, and paved the way for other IDF cyber operations.