Unit 8200

Unit 8200 (Unit Eight Hundred Two ) ( 8200 יחידה or jechidad Shmone matayim in Hebrew) is a unit of the Israel Defense Forces for telecommunications and electronic intelligence, which is responsible for the extraction of signal intelligence information and code for decryption. The unit reports to the Military Intelligence Service and Aman is to compare the task box forth with the National Security Agency of the United States. Also in this unit, the ability is believed to cyberwar.

History

Unit 8200 was established in 1952 using surplus U.S. military equipment. Originally it was "2nd Intelligence Service Unit " ( German: 2 news service unit ) and then " 515th Intelligence Service Unit " ( German: 515 Intelligence Service Unit) called. In 1954, the unit of Jaffa was moved to its current location at the Glilot junction.

Former employees of Unit 8200 founded leading Israeli high-tech companies, including eg Check Point, ICQ, Nice, AudioCodes and Gilat. Two companies in the Room 641A scandal, uncovered in 2006 by Mark Klein, and the surveillance and espionage were in 2013 involved were founded by former Unit -8200 - employees: Verint Systems and Narus produce high-performance real -time monitoring systems and were greeted by former members of the unit launched.

It is believed that Unit 8200 the creator of the Stuxnet computer worm was that sabotaged 2010 control systems of Iranian plants for uranium enrichment in the year.