This is the fourth time in the last 5 years when hackers have reportedly used such tactics against the Israeli military.
Hackers from Palestinian militant group Hamas managed to lure Israeli soldiers into falling prey to their latest Honey Trap operation in which several hundred Israeli soldiers got their smartphones infected with malware.
According to Israeli military’s spokesperson Lt Col Jonathan Conricus, the attack was thwarted but by then hackers had already infected hundreds of smartphones belonging to their soldiers.
Reportedly, hackers lured Israeli soldiers using pictures of attractive females and conned them into chatting over different communication platforms and eventually downloading malicious software.
The hackers posed as women to send out malware and receive crucial information about the device as well as controlling key functions of the phone including camera and microphone, and accessing stored messages and contact information.
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To carry out this operation, Hamas used around 6 dummy accounts created to impersonate young and attractive Israeli women while they used social media platforms such as Instagram and Facebook and messaging apps like WhatsApp and Telegram to chat with the soldiers.
To share intimate pictures, the hackers (impersonating as females) asked soldiers to do ..
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