Today, Tuesday, the Israeli occupation army announced that it had thwarted what it said were attempts by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) to hack the phones of its soldiers.
The Israeli army spokesman, Avichai Adraei, said that the recent period witnessed repeated attempts by Hamas to hack the phones of soldiers in the army.
He explained that Hamas had set up "a game application and fake accounts that try to convince soldiers to download the application that would completely control the phones."
Adraei indicated, in a tweet on Twitter, that this is not the first time that Hamas has tried to collect information in this way.
During the past years, Hamas confirmed that the "war of minds" continues between the resistance and the occupation in the context of a full confrontation with it, and that it has proven its intelligence capabilities in confronting the occupation's security services.
In January 2017, the Israeli Intelligence and Army admitted that Hamas had succeeded in eavesdropping on communications of Israeli officers and soldiers, and considered this intrusion a very dangerous development.
Israeli reports said at the time that the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, hacked the smartphones of Israeli officers and soldiers in the regular army and reserves, as well as officers in the field staff and the General Staff, and was able to do so through fake accounts on social media filled with pictures of beautiful girls.
Through those accounts, the hackers communicated with the soldiers, and held long conversations with them, after they installed viruses that could control the phones of dozens of the targets, according to a statement by an Israeli military official.