Activists angry over strikes on Israeli websites hack back

As hacker group Anonymous carried out “OpIsrael,”an opposing group made them not so anonymous, by infiltrating their webcams and shooting them typing away.

“A hacker called Buddhax, a member of the Israeli Elite Force hacking group, posted the information on the IEF’s Facebook page” within days, after “anti-Israel hackers attempted to repeat last year’s mass attacks on Israeli sites,” the Times of Israel reports.

Anonymous allegedly published a list of phone numbers, emails and passwords of senior Israeli officials. Israeli officials said that the list was outdated. Some private Israeli websites were also knocked offline. Most outages were caused by distributed denial of service attacks, which freeze a site with an overwhelming amount of traffic.

While Anonymous hackers were raiding Israeli sites, Buddhax traced the IP addresses of some of the individuals and broke into at least 16 of their computers, taking screenshots, scraping computers for logins and passwords of online accounts and using their webcams to take photos of them.

He sent a message to each hacker reading “Next time don’t take part in OpIsrael. We know who you are. We know where you are. Long live Israel!”

Buddhax also posted the Facebook pages and other personal data of most of his targets. Many of the pages and accounts listed in Buddhax’s document have been blocked or taken down.

He wrote on IEF’s Facebook page that he wanted to expose the group as being sophisticated than it claims to be: “DDOS attacks and defacing small sites are not hacking,” he wrote. “I’m not too big of a hacker, but I’m good enough to expose you.”

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