Hacked Prayer App Used as Cyber Weapon During US-Israel Strikes on Iran

A popular Iranian prayer timing app (BadeSaba, 5M+ downloads) had its push-notification backend compromised to send surrender and propaganda messages to users concurrently with Israeli and US airstrikes on Tehran; the operation coincided with severe nationwide internet disruptions (national traffic down to ~4%) and outages of state-affiliated news sites, suggesting a highly coordinated, likely nation-state cyber-psychological campaign though attribution is unconfirmed.