Cyberattack Plunging Israel into Darkness?

Between the talk circulating in Tel Aviv about an external cyber attack that caused the power cut in a third of the occupied Palestinian territories and the enthusiasm of the Israeli power company to confirm, in return, that there is no cyber attack, it seems that the attack has actually occurred. It is the most reasonable estimate, pending the assurances that will be received later, as is the custom of the enemy in similar cases witnessed by cyber confrontation, on more than one level, with the axis of resistance.

It seemed remarkable that from the first moment of the power outage, the Israeli narrative fluctuated between rejection, certainty, and skeptic, that the outage was the result of violating Israeli cyber defenses and then controlling the computers that distribute electricity between areas. in the center and the south, and work to cut the current. The military correspondent of “Channel 12”, Nir Dafouri (and it is striking that he is referring to the news coverage in relation to his specialization), that three power plants collapsed one after another, leaving a third of the population of Israel , after midnight, without power. He added that, in exchange for assurances from the power company that an overload had caused the power outage, “a security source familiar with the details told me that in the middle of the night there is no national pressure on the power grid, and there is no pressure on any power station, which means there is a great possibility. Because the problem is related to a cyber attack. “According to Hebrew reports, the power outages included a large number of cities and settlements in the south, center and north, including Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Beersheba, Ptah Tikva, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Nahal Surik, Rishon LeZion, Netanya, Raanana and the Upper Galilee settlements.

The narrative of “overload” does not correspond to the fact of “low load” at the time of the blackout

And if the Israeli conversation has been relatively stable, since the first moment of the blackout, that a “hacker” from Iran or “Hezbollah” violated the Israel Electricity Company, but the latter returned yesterday morning to talk about “overload” as the reason; Since it automatically activates the self-protection program of power plants and prevents them from operating. However, the “overload” narrative, which contradicts the assertions of the security source familiar with the details, also does not match the “low load” reality at the time of the power outage after midnight, considering that The protection program is activated to cut the electricity supply to a part of the beneficiaries of Energy to reduce the load, without retreating to the production stations to stop them, which reduces the credibility of the subsequent narration of the electricity company.
A similar blackout occurred last month and covered all Israeli settlements and cities. The reason, which was also announced at the time, was the “overload” that automatically stopped the production plants. At that time, the company said that the power outage lasted for three hours, while the settlers confirmed, in contacts with various Hebrew media, that they had suffered a long power outage, contrary to the official version.
The warning remains that the most successful cyberattacks, whether in relation to the attack on the electricity sector or otherwise, are those that the other party receiving the attacks believes or believes, in their aftermath, that the cause is unknown or due to technical failures, which means a very high professionalism on the part of Hackers “.

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