{"id":232589,"date":"2026-03-05T06:15:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T12:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/149-hacktivist-ddos-attacks-hit-110-organizations-in-16-countries-after-middle-east-conflict"},"modified":"2026-03-05T06:15:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T12:15:32","slug":"149-hacktivist-ddos-attacks-hit-110-organizations-in-16-countries-after-middle-east-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/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 class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/149-hacktivist-ddos-attacks-hit-110-organizations-in-16-countries-after-middle-east-conflict.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 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,\u201d Radware <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radware.com\/security\/threat-advisories-and-attack-reports\/ddos-activity-following-operation-epic-fury-roaring-lion\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orangecyberdefense.com\/global\/insights\/research-intelligence\/epidemiology-labs\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">details<\/a> 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radware.com\/blog\/threat-intelligence\/keymous-plus-a-new-hacktivist-collective-or-a-ddos-as-a-service-brand\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Keymous+<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radware.com\/security\/threat-advisories-and-attack-reports\/dienet-activity-escalates-against-us-organizations\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DieNet<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2025\/07\/europol-disrupts-noname05716-hacktivist.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NoName057(16)<\/a>, which accounted for 74.6% of all activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe 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,\u201d 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. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}