According to the investigators’ version, the group is linked to Iran.
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Israel’s Central District Prosecutor’s Office has indicted Omri Goren Gorohovsky, a 37-year-old resident of Loda, on charges of espionage.
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According to the investigators’ version, Gorohovsky offered to put the “Black Shadow” in the minister’s private computer “Trojan horse”.
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Gorohovsky and his wife worked for several years at the Ganca House in Haivina, near Tel Aviv, on the farm and its maintenance.
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After several publications in the media last year about the cyber attacks carried out by the group against Israeli objects, Gorohovsky decided to contact the hackers and offer them cooperation.
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Using the Telegram platform, the accused, hiding behind a fictional name, informed the hackers that he was working in the house of the Israeli defense minister and that he could be helped in exchange for money.
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To prove the seriousness of his intentions, Gorohovsky photographed several objects in Ganca’s house, including a workbench, computers, telephones, tablets, photographs of Ganca and his family, a municipal tax bill.
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The accused then deleted all the photos and the Telegram program on his phone.
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Gorohovsky was arrested on November 4.
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According to the arrest warrant, Gorohovsky has a rather glorious criminal biography,
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he has previously been convicted five times in prison of various offenses, including the robbery of a bank, which raises questions about his recruitment at the home of a high-security official.
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In a separate statement, Israel’s internal security service, Shin Bet, confirmed that Gorohovsky did not have access to “secret materials” and therefore could not successfully share state secrets.
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Last month, Black Shadow hackers claimed to have carried out a cyber attack on an Israeli internet service provider.
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Gorohovsky’s indictment describes the Black Shadow as a group “linked to Iran.”
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