A meeting this week of the high-level security cabinet, the first to be held in months, dealt in part with a recent Iranian cyberattack on Israel’s water infrastructure, Israeli television reported Saturday.
Quoting unnamed senior officials, Channel 13 news said the attack in late April is viewed as a significant escalation by Iran and a crossing of a red line because it targeted civil infrastructure.
“This is an attack that goes against all the codes of war. Even from the Iranians we didn’t expect something like this,” an official was quoted saying.
The attack did minimal damage, though problems were reported at some facilities in local councils, the officials said.
Israel was now weighing how and if to respond, the network said.
According to the report, ministers who took part in Thursday’s security cabinet meeting had to
On Thursday, Fox News reported that Iran was behind the attack, with hackers using American servers to carry out the breach.
A senior US Department of Energy official told Fox News that the Trump administration was committed to protecting allies from cyberattacks but would not comment on the specific incident, saying an investigation was ongoing. READ MORE
