War is when a Conflict between at least two sides happens.

In most cases for spectators, it tends to be wiser to not choose sides. By not biased to one or another, outsiders can hope to not get involved in the conflicts. By condemning wars and choose peace, they can remain neutral. and not spark either side's anger.

But apparently, not siding means that they can annoy the supporters of either sides.

In this case, pro-Palestinians Hackers are starting to hunt down anything they can attack on the Israeli governments and those that show supports for Israel, even when slightly.

Among the most notable, include:

• AnonGhost, a pro-Palestinian hacking group exploited a flaw in the RedAlert app, which alerts users to real-time rocket launches, and sent fake alerts about a nuclear bomb. They also hacked a number of instances in Singapore, the Lion City in the Southeast Asia that support a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict.

  AnonGhost Indonesian received help from Malaysian hacker group 4 EXPLOITATION, and hacked into a theatre institution in Singapore, defacing the website and leaking the database.

• Killnet, which is a hacker group that claims to consist of patriotic Russian volunteer hackers. They announced that they would target all Israeli government systems with DDoS attacks, in order to cripple their systems and force them offline.

  They blamed Israel for the bloodshed and accused the country of supporting Ukraine and NATO.

• Ghosts of Palestine, another pro-Palestine hacking group, claimed to have attacked a range of organizations, including Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ben Gurion Airport and others.

  They also issued a call for hackers worldwide to join them in attacking Israeli and U.S. public and private infrastructure.

• DragonForce Malaysia, a hacking group from Malaysia, claimed to have stolen the personal information of hundreds of thousands of Israeli students and began leaking it online, including names, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, and home addresses. Details initially include some 280,000 students from 2014 to the present were leaked along with some 100,000 email addresses

  The cyberattack was announced by the group on its website.

These are some of the examples of the hacktivism that has erupted in the wake of the Hamas-Israel warm, which started following Hamas' surprise attack to Israel on October 7th.

The hackers, all of which are politically motivated, often launch DDoS attacks that take websites offline for hours, if not more.

While the attacks aren't necessarily ransomware attacks or traditional espionage by nature, the goal here is to create the psychological impact of an armed conflict for everyday citizens as they struggle to access basic online services.

It's worth noting that the cyberattacks in the Israel-Hamas war come less than a week after the International Committee of the Red Cross published a list of rules that it said should govern the activities of hacktivists in military conflicts.

One of them is that these groups should not hit civilian targets.

Following the ICRC’s announcement, hacktivists defaced the website of Russia’s Red Cross.