Another threat from Hamas
Recently, some Israelis were alerted because of the spreading emails threatening an attack to Palestine. The emails state that 1,330 Islamist fighters infiltrated Palestine and would kill prominent people. The email account was registered in Google’s Gmail, which enables one to open an account without identification. The people who received the messages received another one later. The next emails came from the man who calls himself “Youth of Islam” and the emails contain the title “The End of Israel.” The messages were written in Arabic, Hebrew, and English. According to reports, the sender probably used the automatic translation services because of the grammatical errors in the messages.
The puzzle
What’s more surprising is that those who received the emails claimed that their email addresses are not the ones they are using for commercial and other purposes that would make these addresses accessible to external sources. One recipient of the controversial emails said that his email address rarely receives spam. The email was sent on behalf of al-Qassam, the armed branch of the Hamas; the sender does not actually have an identification. Until now, it’s still a puzzle if the emails were really sent by al-Qassam.
Different hacking methods
But how could the email addresses of various people be accessed by the sender, when they claimed that their addresses were secured from external sources? There are actually various ways to hack this info. Some of the ways include the use of JavaScript to make the browser send an message to a specific email address with the address configured into the browser. Another is by making the browser fetch the images in the page through an anonymous FTP connection.