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(October 31, 2021 / Israel Hayom) A hacker group affiliated with Iran announced on Friday that it had breached the servers of an Israeli web hosting company, and threatened to leak data pertaining to thousands of users.

The group, calling itself “BlackShadow,” shuttered servers belonging to Cyberserve, which provides servers and data storage for companies such as Israel’s Kan public broadcaster, the Israel Lottery, Birthright, the Dan and Kavim public transportation companies, the Children’s Museum in Holon, LGBTQ dating app “Atraf,” tour booking company Pegasus, the Israeli Children’s Museum, and dozens more.

BlackShadow first surfaced last year, with a massive breach of Israeli insurance company Shirbit and later of KLS Capital. Information on both…

A hacker group affiliated with Iran announced on Friday that it had breached the servers of an Israeli web hosting company, and threatened to leak data pertaining to thousands of users.

The group, calling itself “BlackShadow,” shuttered servers belonging to Cyberserve, which provides servers and data storage for companies such as Israel’s Kan public broadcaster, the Israel Lottery, Birthright, the Dan and Kavim public transportation companies, the Children’s Museum in Holon, LGBTQ dating app “Atraf,” tour booking company Pegasus, the Israeli Children’s Museum, and dozens more.

BlackShadow first surfaced last year, with a massive breach of…

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Hackers, apparently linked to Iran, said Friday they had broken into the servers of Israeli internet hosting company Cyberserve, bringing down a number of widely-used websites.

The Black Shadow group, which Hebrew-language media reports said was Iranian, warned the Israeli company that it was in possession of data that could be leaked. The group has not confirmed that it is Tehran-backed.

“Hello Again! We have news for you,” the hackers wrote in a message circulated on social media on Friday evening. “You probably could not connect to many websites today. ‘Cyberserve’ company and their customers [were] hit by us. You may ask what about Data? As always, we have lots of it. If you don’t want your Data leaked by us, contact us soon.”

Black Shadow stole a vast…

Eco-friendly web hosting provider Krystal has announced details of its ‘1 billion tree pledge’ to help mitigate the ongoing climate catastrophe, with a goal to protect and plant 1 billion trees by 2030. The pledge target of 1 billion will be reached through a combination of conserving existing trees, restoring degraded forests, and planting new trees.

Krystal’s commitment comes as part of the global 1t.org initiative, a programme to mobilize the private sector and accelerate nature-based solutions in support of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. Krystal aims to use this pledge to raise awareness of environmental sustainability. Having planted over 1 million trees this year Krystal has pledged to plant 10 trees on behalf of each of its 37,082 clients in order to…