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 Thursday 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, followed by the United States with 9.4%, and Ukraine with 8.9%, according to Radware’s report. 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.
Radware noted that the “distribution underscores the role of hacktivism as a proxy weapon in international conflicts, used to disrupt the digital infrastructure of perceived state adversaries.”
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