Israel revealed the Hamas operation to spy on its soldiers through dating apps

The Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas appears to have launched an operation to infiltrate Israel's army of establishing relations with Israeli soldiers with the intention of controlling their mobile and collect sensitive information, as already tried "Hamas has once again tried to urge our soldiers to infect their mobiles with harmful programs, the first time in January 2017," said a senior official. Israeli army to a group of reporters. at the headquarters of the Central Military Command in Tel Aviv.

The novelty of recent attempts at attacks is that they were made primarily through nomination requests.

In Operation " Broken Heart ]", as the army called, "Hamas uses fictitious or stolen profiles to directly contact the soldiers," said the military officer, which had an impact on the larger application of the methods currently used by the Islamist group.

If in 2017, they proposed to the soldiers to download applications developed by Hamas, often suspicious of being links without references and little downloadable, this time "the applications are" The mode of operation is the next: establish a contact via Facebook then propose to move to WhatsApp . Our soldiers are now trained to detect if the talks are fraudulent, but many have made contact, "he said.

Hamas Hamas (that Israel, like the European Union or the United States, United consider as a terrorist group), he used Israeli phone numbers to avoid suspicion and the agents who performed these infiltration tasks handled a perfect Hebrew.

"This is because". they live among us. "Hamas is not only in Gaza, it knows how to approach our soldiers, topics of conversation, music, interests," said the soldier.

However, he also said that security was not harmful although some 400 people, not all soldiers, three different types of harmful applications were downloaded.

The applications created by Hamas are " Glanceclove "," Wink cat [1945] 9006] "and" Golden Cup "- the first two appointments and the third on the World Cup and, according to the official," very good, with links to see the matches, results, stats "- are no longer on Google Play.

The danger "is big," said the soldier, because "without knowing it, a soldier's mobile here, at headquarters, can take pictures, record conversations …", in addition to be used to blackmail, access documents and private photos. ] EFE