{"id":220032,"date":"2026-03-04T12:21:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T17:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/149-hacktivist-ddos-attacks-hit-110-organizations-in-16-countries-after-middle-east-conflict\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T23:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T04:55:09","slug":"149-hacktivist-ddos-attacks-hit-110-organizations-in-16-countries-after-middle-east-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/149-hacktivist-ddos-attacks-hit-110-organizations-in-16-countries-after-middle-east-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"149 Hacktivist DDoS Attacks Hit 110 Organizations in 16 Countries After Middle East Conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/03\/149-hacktivist-ddos-attacks-hit-110.html\">149 Hacktivist DDoS Attacks Hit 110 Organizations in 16 Countries After Middle East Conflict<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/03\/149-hacktivist-ddos-attacks-hit-110.html\">https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/03\/149-hacktivist-ddos-attacks-hit-110.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-04 12:21:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"thehackernews.com\">thehackernews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cybersecurity researchers have warned of a surge in retaliatory hacktivist activity following the U.S.-Israel coordinated military campaign against Iran, codenamed Epic Fury and Roaring Lion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The hacktivist threat in the Middle East is highly lopsided, with two groups, Keymous+ and DieNet, driving nearly 70% of all attack activity between February 28 and March 2,&#8221; Radware said in a Tuesday report. The first distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack was launched by Hider Nex (aka Tunisian Maskers Cyber Force) on February 28, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>According to details shared by Orange Cyberdefense, Hider Nex is a shadowy Tunisian hacktivist group that supports pro-Palestinian causes. It leverages a hack-and-leak strategy combining DDoS attacks with data breaches to leak sensitive data and advance its geopolitical agenda. The group emerged in mid-2025.<\/p>\n<p>In all, a total of 149 hacktivist DDoS claims were recorded targeting 110 distinct organizations across 16 countries. The attacks were carried out by 12 different groups, including Keymous+, DieNet, and NoName057(16), which accounted for 74.6% of all activity.<\/p>\n<p>Of these attacks, the vast majority, 107, were concentrated in the Middle East, disproportionately targeting public infrastructure and state-level targets. Europe was the target of 22.8% of the total global activity during the time period. Nearly 47.8% of all targeted organizations globally belonged to the government sector, followed by finance (11.9%) and telecommunications (6.7%) sectors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The digital front is expanding alongside the physical one in the region, with hacktivist groups simultaneously targeting more nations in the Middle East than ever before,&#8221; Radware said. &#8220;The distribution of attacks within the region was heavily concentrated in three specific nations: Kuwait, Israel, and Jordan, with Kuwait accounting for 28%, Israel for 27.1%, and Jordan for 21.5% of the total attack claims.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Besides Keymous+, DieNet, and NoName057(16), some of the other groups that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/03\/149-hacktivist-ddos-attacks-hit-110.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>149 Hacktivist DDoS Attacks Hit 110 Organizations in 16 Countries After Middle East Conflict https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/03\/149-hacktivist-ddos-attacks-hit-110.html&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":220033,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjabhLtgN_k3Zm7rY2cHxMPh9Py-QdY1pESzIEtJbo45w5Y744g5nEtkc9z6tmPaXh_wB0pgzxbFwTzM7C0whbwEbbSopd-CZy98ANNcLF5k7orHTEMlkLSN5JegxMAMPEyeXPE2VXurPv4npqtKkvuay4ZltoPMk47uR-eqP6LsFHp3SqxAeu8tthDyZMa\/s1600\/ddos.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-220032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-cybersecurity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220032"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220034,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220032\/revisions\/220034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}