Robert Tollast
Details are still emerging on Israel’s wave of air strikes against Iran on Saturday, including a claim reported by Israel’s Kan News that Iranian air defences were hacked in advance.
The tactic was also disclosed to The Independent's Farsi edition by purported security figures in Iran on Monday. Israel and Iran regularly exchange cyber attacks, including alleged attacks on civilian infrastructure such as banks and transport systems, and most famously, a 2010 cyber attack on Iranian uranium enrichment equipment, with the Stuxnet virus.
“The defence radar systems were hacked in several places. The screens of these radars were frozen and the possibility of tracking the attackers was denied from more advanced radars in some defence systems,” The Independent reported.
Both publications said there had been an attempt to breach air defences using a cyber attack, without elaborating.
The tactic of using cyber warfare in air battles is not new. The National previously reported how Israel is thought to have used a cyber attack to disable Syrian air defences in a 2007 operation to bomb a nuclear research site in the east of the country at Deir Ezzor.
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