The Fifth Domain at War: Cyber Operations in the 2026 Middle East Conflict

This Zynia Labs report documents coordinated nation-state and hacktivist cyber operations during the Iran–Israel escalation, highlighting large-scale disruptive attacks (Iranian internet reduced to ~4% for over 60 hours), a compromised prayer app used to push defection messages, a Microsoft Intune campaign that remotely wiped ~200,000 medical devices, and an ecosystem of pro-Iran and pro-Israel actors leveraging proxy and 'faketivist' fronts to broaden targeting beyond direct belligerents.