The IDF Intelligence Directorate has thwarted a community of dozens of pretend profiles on-line belonging to Hezbollah terrorists, the army revealed Thursday night.
The terrorists used social media to assemble intelligence, aiming to deceive IDF troopers and try and extract delicate data from them about their areas on bases throughout the nation and the positions of troops.
In response to the army’s assertion, the Info Safety Division of the Intelligence Directorate uncovered and thwarted the community via a novel operation. The terrorists, the assertion stated, posed as pretend personas on-line, generally impersonating IDF troopers.
The personas engaged in private interactions with troopers via messages, voice recordings, and video calls.
The IDF utilized numerous superior capabilities to determine pretend profiles to guard troopers from enticement makes an attempt by hostile brokers.
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Monitoring troopers on social media is among the enemy’s strategies for enhancing intelligence. Simply two months in the past, the Shin Guess (Israel Safety Company) uncovered a collection of pretend profiles via which Iran tried to recruit Israelis to spy for them. Quite a few pretend profiles had been recognized and monitored as a part of the Shin Guess’s operation.
Moreover, posts had been recognized in Telegram teams and channels from “IRAN INTELLIGENCE SERVICE,” providing “fascinating and thrilling” jobs and guarantees of excessive pay for finishing them.Â
The publish included a hyperlink the place respondents had been requested to finish their private particulars. Many Israelis who acquired such suspicious provides avoided responding and even alerted safety authorities about them.