Israel was the most attacked country in the world by geopolitically motivated hackers and malicious actors in 2025, as the country’s multifront wars with the Hamas terror group and Iran and its proxies spurred a spike in cyberattacks, according to the annual global cyber threat analysis report published Thursday by Israeli cybersecurity firm Radware.

With 12.2 percent of all global geopolitically motivated cyberattacks directed at the country over the past year, Israel is at the top of the 2025 list, followed by the United States with 9.4%, and Ukraine with 8.9%, according to Radware’s report. This means that almost one in eight ideologically motivated attacks in the world was directed against Israel, as state and national conflicts are increasingly shifting into the digital arena.

Radware noted that the “distribution underscores the role of hacktivism as a proxy weapon in international conflicts, used to disrupt the digital infrastructure of perceived state adversaries.”

The two-year Hamas war in Gaza and the 12-day military conflict with Iran in June last year have fueled hacktivist activities, leading to an increase in politically motivated cyberattacks targeting public, private, and critical infrastructure. In 2025, Israel was the target of 1,881 unique attack claims, up from 1,550 a year earlier, according to Radware data.

Earlier this year, cyber defense chief Yossi Karadi warned that Israel needs to bolster its preparedness for what he described as a fast-approaching “cyber war.” Meanwhile, the Shin Bet security agency and National Cyber Directorate said that in recent months, hundreds of Iranian........

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