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A report from Check Point Research has revealed the emergence of a Kurdish hacktivist group known as “Hezi Rash”, which has been active since 2023 and is responsible for more than 350 cyberattacks over a two-month period. The group primarily conducts Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks targeting countries and websites it perceives as threats to Kurdish and Muslim communities.
According to Daniel Sadeh, a Cyber Threat Intelligence analyst at Check Point, Hezi Rash describes itself as the “digital guardian of the Kurdish people,” motivated by both political and religious factors. The group promotes its activities across Telegram, TikTok, YouTube, and X (formerly Twitter), with attack targets spanning multiple countries – including Japan (23.5%), Turkey (15.7%), Israel (14.6%), Germany (14.2%), Iran (10.7%), Iraq (7.5%), Azerbaijan (5.7%), Syria (4.3%), and Armenia (3.9%). Notable operations include retaliatory attacks against a Japanese anime website that displayed an image of the Kurdish flag being burned, and participation in the #OpIsrael campaign, reflecting the group’s ideological and religious motivations.
Investigations also found that Hezi Rash maintains ties with other hacktivist groups such as Keymous+, Killnet, and NoName057(16), which enhances its access to DDoS-as-a-Service (DaaS) tools like EliteStress, enabling attacks without advanced technical skills. The group has also used Abyssal DDoS v3, a tool developed by a pro-Palestinian actor known as Mr. Hamza. This trend highlights the evolution of modern hacktivism, where groups increasingly rely on rented attack infrastructure to advance political agendas and cause large-scale disruptions.
Organizations are advised to strengthen their defenses by deploying DDoS mitigation services, implementing Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) with challenge-page mechanisms, and closely monitoring traffic originating from residential IP ranges to mitigate such politically driven DDoS campaigns.
Source https://hackread.com/kurdish-hacktivists-hezi-rash-ddos-attacks/
