Following the launch of the U.S.–Israeli military campaign against Iran on February 28, 2026, a parallel surge of hacktivist activity quickly emerged across the Middle East. According to a report from Radware, within nine hours of the first kinetic strikes under “Operation Epic Fury,” multiple hacktivist groups began launching retaliatory distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks targeting government and critical infrastructure across the region. Between February 28 and March 2, nine hacktivist groups claimed 107 attacks against 81 organizations in eight Middle Eastern countries.
The Cyberwire