Possibly Iran.
[IsraelTimes] Malware, including wiretapping software, reportedly found during daily cybersecurity check at opposition Yashar party headquartersSpyware designed to eavesdrop and extract sensitive information was recently discovered on the phones of two bigwigs in Gadi Eisenkot’s election campaign, Channel 12 reported Wednesday.
Because of the sensitive information the campaign handles for Eisenkot’s opposition Yashar party, campaign headquarters has recently implemented a strict security protocol, mandating daily cybersecurity checks and phone scans for some staffers, including its most bigwigs.
The report says the campaign’s private security firm found malicious software in two separate cases during those scans. Eisenkot’s own devices were not compromised, it added.
The malware included wiretapping software and activity trackers, the Hebrew outlet reported.
Eisenkot’s Yashar is set to become the largest Knesset party in October’s elections, according to most recent polls, just ahead of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud. But the anti-Netanyahu Zionist parties are polling two or three seats short of a 61-strong majority in the 120-member Knesset.
Despite the apparent breaches, Eisenkot’s campaign has not filed a complaint with the police, Channel 12 said, and instead opted to bolster its cybersecurity measures and continue conducting daily scans of bigwigs’ devices.
Channel 12 did not report who may have been responsible for installing the spyware or when the devices were compromised.
Politicians and their aides have been increasingly targeted by attempts to hack and install malware on their devices in recent years. In many of these cases, the efforts have been claimed by Iran-linked groups, though Channel 12 did not report a connection to Iran
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In January, the Iranian-linked Handala group published photos and videos it said were stolen from the phone of former minister Ayelet Shaked.
A month earlier, the group claimed to have hacked the phones of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s chief of staff Tzachi Braverman and of former prime minister Naftali Bennett.
In all three instances, the group released photos, videos, and documents that it claimed to have obtained from the devices.
Bennett denied at the time that his phone had been breached, but admitted that hackers had accessed his Telegram account.
Also in December 2025, Likud MKs Tally Gotliv and Moshe Saada informed the Knesset security officer that they suspected their phones had been hacked.
Additionally, over the past two years, dozens of Israelis, including several soldiers and reservists, have been charged with espionage on behalf of Iran. In many cases, Iranian agents recruited Israelis via social media, specifically through Telegram, with promises of payment.
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