A new ideologically-motivated threat actor has emerged and growing technical capabilities: Hezi Rash. This Kurdish nationalist hacktivist group, founded in 2023, has rapidly escalated its presence through a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks targeting countries perceived as hostile to Kurdish or Muslim communities. Who Is Hezi Rash? Hezi Rash, meaning “Black Force” in Kurdish, describes itself as a digital collective defending Kurdish society against cyber threats. The...
