The Kan channel quoted the Israeli information security company Check Point that “Iranian hackers entered and impersonated the mailbox of the reserve brigade (in the Israeli army) as they tried to carry out electronic attacks against high-ranking political, academic and commercial persons, including former Secretary of State Livni , former US ambassador to Israel, head of a highly centralized think tank, senior fellow for Middle East affairs, and vice president of a major security company.

For at least half a year, from December 2021 until last week, Iranian hackers were in correspondence on behalf of a senior reserve general after hacking into his emails with senior officials to force them to open various documents, according to the report. The hackers’ various correspondence with the parties they were trying to attack included sending conference invitation documents abroad and articles about Iran’s nuclear program, all of which required the victims to enter an email password.

In one case, the correspondence resulted in a senior manager of a large security company in Israel sending a copy of his passport. In December, the former secretary of state received several emails in Hebrew from the same general, including a request to read an article he wrote about security developments in 2021. suspected this affair, the former foreign minister turned to the general, who had no idea what she was talking about.