By Nicole Perlroth, Bits @ nytimes.com, Nov. 20, 2012

Article explains that Anonymous's campaign has been unsuccessful at anything other than being a slight nuisance, but that

[....] Attacks from Iran and Gaza are another matter.

In July, security researchers at Kaspersky Lab and Seculert, two computer security firms, discovered that a strain of malware had infected Israeli companies. Many of those companies handle critical infrastructure, like the country’s energy and water supplies, computer and telecom networks. The malware, which the researchers named “Mahdi” after a command in its code, appears to have originated in Iran. Elements of the code were written in Farsi [....]

More recently, Israel was forced to take its police department offline two weeks ago after security experts discovered that many of the department’s computers had been infected with a remote-access tool, or RAT, which gives attackers realtime control of victims’ machines. The RAT appeared to be an off-the-shelf variation that can be bought on public sites for as little as $50.

After some investigation, researchers at Norman, a computer security firm in Fairfax, Va., noted that the  attacks originated from command-and-control centers in Gaza and that the same servers had been spying for over a year, first on computers in Palestine and then in Israel. [....]