Iran’s electronic confrontation with Israel

The digital assault on Ziv, however, embodied the cyberwar raging between Israel and its enemies in the aftermath of Hamas’s massacre of Israelis on October 7th. The attack was novel in several respects, says Gaby Portnoy, the head of the Israel National Cyber Directorate (INCD), the country’s defensive cyber-agency, in an interview with The Economist. For one thing, it was a joint operation conducted by Iran and its ally Hizbullah, the militia and political party that dominates Lebanon. “They didn’t work so well together until October 7th,” he says. “We now see them…exchanging targets, exchanging capabilities. They are almost the same.”