Israel and Iran Enter Second Week of Conflict Amid Regional and Global Concerns

Cyber warfare emerged as a vital frontier in the early days of the conflict. Within hours of the first missile strikes, Israeli and Iranian hackers engaged in a furious contest to disrupt each other’s critical infrastructure. Power grids flickered, financial services went offline, and rumors of successful penetrations by state-linked cyber units proliferated. Both governments downplayed the extent of the damage, but independent observers and private cybersecurity firms warned that essential services were vulnerable to ongoing digital attacks, and the risk of wider, collateral damage increased daily.