ISRAEL - Most Targeted by Cyber Attacks

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 at the top of the 2025 list. This means that almost one in eight ideologically motivated attacks in the world was directed against Israel, as state and national conflicts are increasingly shifting into the digital arena.

Earlier this year, cyber defense chief Yossi Karadi warned that Israel needs to bolster its preparedness for what he described as a fast-approaching “cyber war.” Meanwhile, the Shin Bet security agency and National Cyber Directorate said that in recent months, hundreds of Iranian cyberattacks targeting Israelis—including senior government and defense officials, academics, and journalists—were detected and foiled. In 2025, the National Cyber Directorate said it saw an increase of 55% in the number of cyberattacks year-on-year.

“The threat landscape is evolving rapidly,” said Radware VP of threat intelligence Ron Meyran. “Attackers are now combining automation, artificial intelligence, and multi-vector strategies to disrupt operations at scale.”

-www.timesofisrael.com, 19 February 2026

Commentary: Almost with lightning speed, Israel has been propelled as the main target; in this case, for cyber-attacks.

CEO of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) Jonathan Greenblatt recently stated: “We are facing the most concentrated, most dangerous surge of antisemitism in living memory. And it is not just coming from the Right or from the Left, from Islamist Extremists or Christian Nationalists, or White Supremacists or Radical Antizionists.”

Over 2,000 years ago, the high priest Zacharias, father of John the Baptist, spoke of the future: “That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear” (Luke 1:74). That is yet to be fulfilled.

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