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The following list identifies the major cyber-related incidents attributed in part to Unit 8200 🇮🇱

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🔳Stuxnet Virus (2005–2010): The virus successfully disabled the nuclear centrifuges in Natanz. According to some accounts,

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the virus was part of the joint Operation Olympic Games
between the United States’ NSA and Israel’s Unit 8200.

🔳Operation Orchard (September 2007), in which Unit 8200 most probably jammed Syrian radar systems without alerting air defense operators in order to allow

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for a precise airstrike against a Syrian nuclear facility in Deir ez-Zor. Unit 8200 conducted SIGINT to locate the facility and caused the anti-aircraft defense to malfunction during the attack, leveraging electronic sabotage.

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🔳 Operation Full Disclosure (March 2014), in which an Israeli commando intercepted an Iranian ship in the Red Sea, which carried military arms and equipment destined for Hamas.

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The operation was made possible by the Unit’s intelligence obtained through “advanced cyber and communications capabilities”.

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🔳The Ogero Incident (May 2017), in which the Lebanese government blamed Israel of having launched a sophisticated cyberattack on the state’s telecommunications company Ogero to spread disinformation through audio messages to over 10,000 Lebanese citizens,

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namely that Hezbollah's leader was behind the death of the group's top military commander.

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🔳ISIS terrorist plot thwarted (February 2018): Unit 8200 discovered and prevented a potential terrorist attack by ISIS against a civilian airliner headed from Australia to the United Arab Emirates.

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It notably shared its intercepted communications with the Australian authorities to prevent the attack.

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Via "Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich"