This was reported by the Israeli publication Vesty, Ukrinform reported.

CloudFlare’s report proves that powerful DDoS attacks began on many Israeli resources, especially media sites and software companies, during the invasion of Hamas terrorists from the Gaza Strip on the morning of October 7.

The attack started at exactly 06.30, simultaneously with the invasion, and reached a density of 100,000 connections per second.

After 45 minutes, the density increased 10 times to 1 million requests per second; this was higher than seen in any previous conflict with Hamas. These are requests to connect to the business’s site, online service, application or internal network.

A dot attack with millions of requests shows that Hamas has funds that no one knew existed. And also about the fact that he is helped by some state services or holders of access to them.

The first suspicions were directed towards Iran, the real owner of such powerful cyber tools was Russia.

The combination of a ground invasion with a massive DDoS-type cyber attack is typical of many wars in which Russia has participated. Essentially, this was implemented during the invasion of Georgia in 2008 and Ukraine in 2014 and 2022.

This doctrine is part of Russian military theory; and the need to paralyze critical infrastructures such as energy and rail transport in the event of a land or air invasion.

It is not yet clear whether Iran or Hamas borrowed the idea from Russia or received covert help from Russia or pro-Russian regimes.

As noted, many hacker groups known to be linked to the Kremlin have been operating against Israeli targets in recent weeks.

According to Ukrinform, Russia-linked hacker groups announced that they support Hamas’s attack on Israel and its attacks on the country’s government websites.