Israel logged roughly 4,800 hostile cyber incidents in June 2026, up from about 1,600 a year earlier, the head of its National Cyber Directorate told a German newspaper.
The fighting between Israel and Iran has a ceasefire. The fighting in cyberspace does not, and the numbers from the past year show it widening rather than cooling.
Yossi Karadi, director general of Israel’s National Cyber Directorate, told the German newspaper Die Welt that the country registered around 4,800 hostile cyber incidents in June 2026, roughly three times the some 1,600 it logged in the same month of 2025.
Both figures fall in periods of open military conflict between the two countries, which makes the year-on-year jump the more striking measure of how far the digital campaign has escalated.
Karadi framed the contrast in plain terms. “Unlike in the kinetic realm, there’s no ceasefire in cyberspace,” he said. The remark lands harder against the backdrop of a year in which the kinetic realm produced one.The 💜 of EU techThe latest rumblings from the EU tech scene, a story from our wise ol' founder Boris, and some questionable AI art. It's free, every week, in your inbox. Sign up now!
