Anonymous: Israel survives declared "electronic holocaust" The hacker group took down several websites of Israeli musicians and non-profit organisations but major attacks on government’s websites stayed out

Several days ago the hacker group Anonymous announced via a YouTube video cyber attacks against the Israeli government happening on the 7th of April 2015. The aim was to launch an "electronic holocaust" and to "erase Israel from cyberspace". However, only limited success was noticed in Israel and no huge cyber attacks occurred that knocked out governments working procedures and public life. The news broadcast "Aljazeera" reports this according to Israel's Computer Emergency Response Team. The Israeli newspaper "Haaretz" reports that the websites of the "Israeli singers Ivri Lider and Shalom Hanoch" were hacked, which are managed both by the same Israeli company. Additionally, the Meretz party's website was brought down the weekend before. The hijacked websites were replaced with photos of a Muslim holy site in Jerusalem and the message "hacked by Anonghost" appeared. Furthermore, the "Haaretz" reports that "several people reported receiving text messages from the number "007" in Arabic that promised to "liberate the two holy mosques from Jewish children". This is the fourth year in a row that the hacker group Anonymous threats the Israeli government with cyber attacks due to its policies towards Palestine. Anonymous uses normally for the campaign, called #Op_Israel, DDOS (distributed denial service attacks) and hidden mechanisms in order to bring down the websites. The common procedure is that targeted websites receive too many requests, thus the website slows down and becomes unavailable. However, this year the cyber attacks were far smaller from what Anonymous signalized before.