Israeli Elite Force

The group is led by Mitziyahu, naming himself co-ordinator, instead of leader. Stating in interviews for The Daily Beast, Israeli Channel 2 News, and more, that the mission of the iEF is to regain the Israeli citizen confidence of their hackers.[1]

OpIsrael was a coordinated cyberattack by anti-Israel[3] groups and individuals against websites they perceived as Israeli, chiefly through denial-of-service attacks.[4] Timed for 7 April 2013, the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day,[5] its stated goal was to "erase Israel from the internet".[6][7] Israeli Elite Force had an early start forming two days prior to the attack, taking down websites.[1][8][9][10][11]

The groups has organized a preemptive attack known as OpIslam to start a day earlier of OpIsrael.[12] Groups known to join iEF at the planned operations include: sTz Hackers, MiSa3L Hacker Team and some single hackers. Cyber War New website released a summary of attacks which lists the attacks and counterattacks, named Operation Israel Reloaded.[13] The OpIslam attack has received some criticism for being somewhat offensive with this said preemptive attack, as opposed to the groups usual defensive actions.

Upon planning of the OpIsraelBirthday by anti-Israeli teams on April 7, 2014, iEF launched OpBirthControl, having several groups and individuals joining them.

On this op the Israeli Elite Force decided to focus its energy on exposing participants of the anti-Israel hacks. The iEF hacked named Buddhax published a PDF document[14] with a list of hackers and personal information including pictures of them taken from their computers. The PDF document has created a "buzz" being twitted by famous hacker The Jester,[15] and celebrity Roseanne Barr,[16][17] and being talked about in the media.[18][19][20][21][22] The group also released 45,000 usernames and passwords of government officials at the Gaza Ministry of Health[23][24]

On another counter-op named #OpIsraelRetailiate, the IEF leaked a database file of the Palestinian Authority Population Registry.[25][26] This action was referred to as unprecedented by Israeli data security experts.[27][28] At the same counter-op, the group also leaked Palestinian Authority unemployment office information containing 38,000 names and personal data of 700 job holders in the Palestinian Authority.[26]