Iran-Linked Hackers Breach Hebrew Language Academy Website in Cyberattack on Israel On Wednesday, the website of the Academy of the Hebrew Language was compromised by Iran-linked hackers, who replaced its homepage with a threatening message. The defacement, claimed by the group "Handala," declared, "There is no need to learn Hebrew anymore. You won’t need it for much longer," accompanied by the group’s logo. The attack is part of a broader wave of Iranian cyber operations targeting Israel amid ongoing regional tensions. According to cybersecurity firm Imperva (owned by Thales), recent assaults peaked at 1.2 million requests per second, aiming to overwhelm servers and disrupt services particularly in the financial sector, including banks and online systems. In addition to the website breach, Handala circulated a propaganda video featuring deepfake footage of former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as reported on Arab social media. The group has previously targeted high-profile Israeli officials, including the breach of Bennett’s and PMO chief Tzachi Braverman’s phones. The incident underscores the escalating digital conflict between Iran-backed hackers and Israeli infrastructure, with both state and civilian entities facing persistent cyber threats.

Imperva disclosed a security incident that impacts customers of its cloud web application firewall (WAF), formerly known as Incapsula. The company learned from a third party of a data exposure that impacts a subset of customers of their Cloud WAF product. Exposed data included customer email addresses, along with hashed and salted passwords, for a subset of customers. For a small number of users, API keys and customer-provided SSL certificates were also exposed. Imperva said the security incident only affected customers of its cloud WAF, and not other products.

The florists associated with Incapsula now known as Imperva, suffered a ransomware attack in the Valentine's week of 2016 which resulted in a huge loss of revenue. ALl of the 34 floristes of Inperva were truck by targeted distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks while one of the website crashed after its content delivery network (CDN) interpreted the attack traffic as legitimate user sessions and routed the traffic through the origin server. One of them also received a ransom demand for restoring the access to the website, however, Imperva immediately helped them get their business online and restore all the access.