ISRAEL has accused Iran and Hezbollah of a twisted cyber attack where phones across the country were flooded with sick messages. One of the texts read "Say goodbye to your loved ones", while another said "Don't worry, you will hug them in hell". 8 One of the messages in Hebrew Credit: Twitter 8 Another message sent on Thursday with a link Credit: Twitter 8 One of the five million messages sent out on Thursday Credit: Twitter 8 Smoke billows from the site of an Israeli strike that targeted the southern Lebanese border area of Alman al-Shumariyah on Thursday Credit: AFP The cyber attack was aimed at an unnamed mobile service provider, Israel's National Cyber Directorate confirmed today.
Some five million messages were sent to Israelis in Hebrew on Wednesday night, purporting to be from the Home Front Command. The government dubbed it an "unsophisticated attempt to incite public panic". It was not clear whether customer data was also compromised.
READ MORE ON MIDDLE EAST LEAVE NOW Brits told to flee Lebanon NOW as Israeli pager blasts spark all-out war fears PAGER BLITZ Moment shopper with ‘Hezbollah pager’ is blasted by Israeli bomb in gadget The Cyber Directorate said Israelis were sent three versions of the messages, all containing harmful links to unknown websites. The links were made inactive within a short period of time, the Directorate said. There was no immediate response to the Israeli allegations from Hezbollah or Iran.
It comes as tensions across the border betwe.