Return of the Revenge of the Nerds

Once again, anti-Israel hackers have gotten a taste of their own medicine. Only 24 hours after a massive cyber attack on Israel took down the Haaretz and Dan Bus Company sites, among others, Israeli hackers have mounted a serious counterattack, striking down Iran's Press TV and the websites of the Iranian Heath and Education Ministries.

In a final act of poetic justice, the hackers replaced the sites with a picture of an Israeli flag.

The Jerusalem Post reports,

"At 16:30 Israel Clock the Iranian Ministry of Health and Medical Education website will be down until further notice. In addition to Iran's television network, broadcasting in English round-the-clock, based in Tehran that [is] called Press TV will be down until further notice," the hackers wrote in a message.

"Ahmadinejad what do you have to say about that?" they added.

The hackers call themselves 'The IDF Team', and have mounted successful retaliatory attacks against Arab websites in the past. In perhaps their biggest coup, they managed to take down the websites of the Arab Bank and the Abu Dhabi stock exchange.

Earlier, IDF Team told The Jerusalem Post it was preparing a response after the websites of two Israeli hospitals - Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer and the private Assouta hospital network - were taken offline on Wednesday.

IDF Team has played a pivotal part in Israeli counter-strikes on high-profile Arab websites following attacks by Arab hackers. They appear to have employed a combination of attacks to disable the Iranian websites on Thursday, by launching dedicated denial-of-service attacks (DDOS) attacks and breaking into Iranian servers.

Despite their name, the hackers are apparently not affliated with the IDF, and like most hackers, they have continued to remain anonymous.

Press TV is an state-owned Iranian station that broadcasts a steady stream of regime propaganda, often antisemitic and anti-Israel in nature.

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