Brain Hackers

The tensions in the Middle East have grown to other spheres too. Now cyberspace is also treated as any other space owned by a country. According to the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, a group calling itself IDF-Team had shut down Saudi Arabia’s and the UAE’s stock exchange websites. These websites were hacked on Tuesday and caused paralysis and delays in these two stock exchanges’ websites.

The attack however was in retaliation to a Saudi hackers’ group called “Nightmare group” that shut down Tel Aviv stock exchange and Israeli airline El Al’s websites. These incidents have initiated a whole ongoing cyber-warfare between Israeli and Arab hackers who have been hacking and releasing Facebook data and email account information since the past couple of weeks. This hacked information is under threat to be
released to the masses causing further damage.

Already the tensions on the grounds are hard to handle and every effort to resolve issues between Arabs and Israelis seem to go wasted when such things happen. It is better that the governments take notice of such cyber-attacks and implement action preventing spilling of warfare into new spheres. Hacking is one the biggest cyber-attacks that could happen and spilling of information can help to promote the propaganda of the side having an upper hand.