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<\/p>\nIsrael logged roughly 4,800 hostile cyber incidents in June 2026, up from about 1,600 a year earlier, the head of its National Cyber Directorate told a German newspaper.<\/p>\n
The fighting between Israel and Iran has a ceasefire. The fighting in cyberspace does not, and the numbers from the past year show it widening rather than cooling.<\/p>\n
Yossi Karadi, director general of Israel\u2019s National Cyber Directorate, told the German newspaper Die Welt that the country registered around 4,800 hostile cyber incidents in June 2026, roughly three times the some 1,600 it logged in the same month of 2025.<\/p>\n
Both figures fall in periods of open military conflict between the two countries, which makes the year-on-year jump the more striking measure of how far the digital campaign has escalated.<\/p>\n
Karadi framed the contrast in plain terms. \u201cUnlike in the kinetic realm, there\u2019s no ceasefire in cyberspace,\u201d he said. The remark lands harder against the backdrop of a year in which the kinetic realm produced one.<\/p>\n
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The attacks, according to Karadi, were aimed at a broad spread of targets: the systems behind Israel\u2019s critical infrastructure, large central organisations, small and medium-sized companies, and ordinary members of the public. Among the smaller victims he named law practices and accounting firms, the sort of businesses that hold sensitive client data without the security budgets of a utility or a bank.<\/p>\n
What he stopped short of claiming was a breach of the most sensitive systems. \u201cSo far, and hopefully it stays that way, we\u2019ve managed to fend off attacks on critical infrastructure,\u201d Karadi said. The hedging is deliberate. A cyber chief counting incidents in the thousands is not in a position to promise the streak holds.<\/p>\n
He also flagged a qualitative shift rather than a purely numerical one. Some of the groups operating against Israel are, in his assessment, genuinely capable. \u201cSome groups are very skilled,\u201d he said. \u201cWe can handle them, but we have to take them seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n
That phrasing, capable but contained, runs through much of how Israeli officials have described the Iranian cyber threat over the past year.<\/p>\n