WORLD - Israel No. 1 Target of Hacktivists

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 month, roughly double the previous month’s total.

Dozens of groups quickly joined campaigns targeting infrastructure in Israel, the United States and Gulf states. Alongside Iran-aligned groups, anti-Western and pro-Russian actors also took part, extending the military confrontation into cyberspace.

The attacks linked to the conflict were part of a broader increase in attempts to take digital services offline. Web DDoS attacks worldwide more than doubled compared with the first half of 2025. In the first six months of this year, Radware mitigated an attack volume equivalent to most of the activity recorded during all of 2025.

“The most significant finding is not merely that Israel once again ranks first, but that the gap between it and the other countries continues to widen,” said Ron Meyran, vice president of cyber intelligence at Radware.

“The digital arena has become an inseparable part of every military conflict, and the campaign against Iran demonstrated how quickly dozens of groups can mobilize and act against organizations in Israel,” he said.

-www.ynetnews.com, 9 September 2026

Commentary: We must understand that tiny Israel with less than 8 million Jews has become the world’s number one target. That is mind-boggling. Why Israel? The simplest answer is, because they are different. We can almost say they are in this world but not of this world, yet they are. There is yet more fulfillment of God’s promises to be accomplished with Israel.

The heathen prophet Balaam made this fitting statement: “the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations” (Number 23:9b).

Israel has developed the intellectual capacity to identify and eliminate threats by hacktivists, at least most of them. What does it mean? The giants—the EU, China, Russia, the USA—will stand in line asking for help against these hacktivists.

We find an example in Exodus 31, when it came to the preparation of the items for the tabernacle: “And I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship” (v. 3).

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