Durante l’operazione “Protective Edge” Israele è stato costretto a difendersi anche da attacchi cibernetici provenienti dall’Iran, è quanto ha fatto notare un esponente dei C4I Corps ripreso da un articolo dell’INSS:
A senior officer in the C4I Corps noted that in the course of the campaign Iranian elements launched a widespread cyber offensive against Israeli targets, including attempts to damage security and financial networks. While these attempts were neutralized relatively easily and quickly by Israeli cyber defenses, it seems that Iran is investing heavily in the development of effective offensive capabilities against infrastructure systems, and might present a serious challenge to Israeli defenses within the foreseeable future.
L’Iran è considerato una delle maggiori potenze mondiali nella guerra cibernetica, soprattutto dopo lo smacco subìto nel 2010 a opera del malware Stuxnet.