IDF clarifies not source of error-riddled messages falsely attributed to Home Front Command; more menacing messages follow, including one allegedly from ‘Nasrallah,’ reading, ‘Say goodbye to your loved ones’
Many Israelis received alarming SMS messages urging them to immediately enter protected areas, in what appears to be a cyberattack impersonating the Home Front Command.
The messages, which follow recent pager and walkie-talkie explosions in Lebanon, have been confirmed by the IDF as fraudulent.
The messages were sent from “OREFAlert,” mimicking the Hebrew name for the Home Front Command, Pikud HaOref. The message, riddled with spelling errors, warned: “Emergency alert, you must immediately enter a protected area,” and included a malicious link.
“I received such a message. It seems fake. Maybe Hezbollah?” one reader wrote in an email to Ynet. Others speculated it could be a phishing attempt, a virus or an Iranian cyberattack.
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