Cyberattack on Israeli kosher internet provider Israel National News

pOn Saturday night Iranian hackers known as the Promised Revenge hacked the Rimon Internet Provider which provides Internet filtering services for the religious and haredi sectorsppThe incident began around 1130 pm since when many customers reported severe disruptions in service to the point of partial or complete disconnection from the networkppInternet Rimon published the following response this morning On August 23 2025 we detected an attack from a hostile entity Immediately upon discovery of the incident we took action to block the attack and currently after extensive activity by the companys technology teams and other leading entities in Israel we are reconnecting our customers to the service Some customers may still experience difficulties connecting to the Internet and disruptions in filtering services We are doing our utmost to restore the service to its continuous and full form We thank our customers for their understanding and trust in the companys services Rimon Internet ManagementppRimon IIX the Israeli Internet Exchanges communication graph show a decrease in traffic around the time of the hack but not a total halt This morning some of the providers customers seem to have internet but not allpp ppAt the same time the hackers released a video in which they claimed in real time to hack Rimon computers while disabling servers and deleting internal infrastructure The group has not yet presented evidence of information theft but claims that it has managed to obtain sensitive information from the companys internal network According to Rimon at this stage there are no indications that personal customer information has been leakedppppHow does Rimon Internet filtering work and what is the risk of a hackppRimon Internet filters content by routing all traffic through its servers acting as an Internet provider with full oversight Using a legitimate MITM ManintheMiddle method it decrypts HTTPS traffic scans it by user rules blocks unwanted content and then restores browsingppThis gives the company access to sensitive data site addresses page content and even login details A breach could expose not only credentials but also personal information such as preferences filtered content and correspondenceppCurrently Rimons services are down with support limited to a recorded line 8900 and Facebook updates Its websites including subsidiaries Etrog and NetFiber are also offline Some customers report partial recovery but the incident remains unresolvedp