Radware’s threat intelligence team recorded 784 DDoS attacks against Israeli organizations during the first six months of 2026, compared with 390 against second-place Ukraine, 359 against the United States and 285 against the United Kingdom. The surge was closely tied to events in the region. After months of declining attack volumes worldwide, the Israeli and U.S. campaign against Iran reversed the trend in March. Hacktivist groups claimed more than 1,300 DDoS attacks that mo

Israel was the most attacked country in the world by geopolitically motivated hackers and malicious actors in 2025, as the country’s multifront wars with the Hamas terror group and Iran and its proxies spurred a spike in cyberattacks, according to the annual global cyber threat analysis report published by Israeli cybersecurity firm Radware. With 12.2 percent of all global geopolitically motivated cyberattacks directed at the country over the past year, Israel is a