Inside the Cyber Honey Traps of Hamas

SOMETHING PHISHY

Terrorists used to use women (real or imagined) to lure Israeli soldiers to their doom. Now what they're after is the soldiers' phones.

Published Mar. 1 2020 5:23AM EST

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TEL AVIV—The 20-year-old Israeli soldier couldn’t believe his luck. Out of nowhere, a pretty brunette named Maria Yakovlevah messaged him on Telegram. She was a year older, originally from Odessa, but now living in northern Israel according to her Facebook profile, which had a post that read, in Hebrew: “A...

Neri Zilber

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Inside the Cyber Honey Traps of Hamas

Terrorists used to use women (real or imagined) to lure Israeli soldiers to their doom. Now what they're after is the soldiers' phones.

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Neri Zilber