Check Point’s Gil Messing recounts battling sophisticated Iranian hackers

On Israel with Ben Caspit, an Al-Monitor podcast

English - June 20, 2022 16:30 - 34 minutes - 31.7 MB
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Ben Caspit talks this week with Gil Messing, the Chief of Staff and Head of Global Corporate Communications at the Israeli software technologies company Check Point. Messing recounts how his company recently stopped a sophisticated fishing campaign by Iranian hackers, which targeted senior Israeli political and security figures. “We constantly need to be under the assumption that such campaigns, such hacking operations, are taking place as we speak by the Iranians and by others,” he says.

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