{"id":263648,"date":"2026-01-29T12:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T12:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/263648\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T12:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T12:24:08","slug":"netanyahus-phone-sticker-catches-the-attention-of-the-arab-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/263648\/","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu&#8217;s phone sticker catches the attention of the Arab world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-v-7e3a3ef3=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">A mysterious red sticker on Prime Minister Netanyahu&#8217;s mobile phone is causing a stir in the Arab world.<\/p>\n<p data-v-7e3a3ef3=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">The sticker was spotted as Prime Minister Netanyahu took a phone call reporting that Ran Gvili&#8217;s body had been recovered from Gaza. It appears to be positioned to cover the cameras of his cell phone. <\/p>\n<p data-v-7e3a3ef3=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">Arabic bloggers praised the Iranian hacking group Handala for &#8220;doing a good job&#8221;, and others claimed, &#8220;Netanyahu is in digital paranoia.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p data-v-7e3a3ef3=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">&#8220;If Netanyahu needs a physical cover for his cell phone, no device in the world is safe from being hacked,&#8221; one blogger declared. The sighting comes on the heels of several high-profile attempts by Iranian hackers to access cell phones of Israeli officials, including former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett. <\/p>\n<p data-v-7e3a3ef3=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">Using physical covers to prevent hackers from seeing or hearing sensitive information by remote activation of a device&#8217;s camera and microphone has been standard cybersecurity protocol for many years both in government and business settings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A mysterious red sticker on Prime Minister Netanyahu&#8217;s mobile phone is causing a stir in the Arab world.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,4287,138296,85,46,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-263648","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-benjamin-netanyahu","9":"tag-cybersecurity","10":"tag-handala-hacker-group","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}