Israel faces another cyberattack, El Al in the firing line

Hackers attacked Israeli websites yesterday, primarily the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and El Al, the national airline. The hacker identifying himself as oxOmar was the same person claiming responsibility for posting the details of more than 20,000 credit cards of Israeli soldiers. oxOmar sent an overnight warning to Israel’s Ynet news outlet that a group of pro-Palestinian cyberattackers called Nightmare planned to bring down the sites in the morning. The attack was a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack where the hackers attempting to bring down the website by overloading the system with access attempts. El Al took down its