Anonymous dislikes Israel. It doesn't like anyone else, either
As over a thousand Hamas rockets rained down on Israel during Operation Pillar of Defense last November, Israel faced a second front — a major cyber-attack on government and private computers, coordinated by a group called Anonymous. OpIsrael, as the assault was called, saw the rate of attacks by hackers against Israeli sites climb significantly during the week of the war. Messages on Facebook pages and Twitter feeds declared the hackers’ solidarity with the Arabs of Gaza, and condemned Israel for bombing targets in the Strip.
That Arab and other hackers could be recruited to attack Israel, especially at a time of heightened tension with the Palestinians, is unsurprising. But what is perhaps surprising is that Anonymous — or groups that claim to be part of the worldwide hacker movement — have not spared Arab regimes. Over the past several years, as the Arab Spring took root, Anonymous, or hackers representing themselves as such, have launched major hacking operations against nearly every Middle East country, including Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia, and even Iran. And some of those operations did far more damage to their targets than OpIsrael did here.
