U.S. Sanctions 6 Iranian Officials for Critical Infrastructure Cyber Attacks Feb 03, 2024NewsroomIntelligence Agency / Cyber Security The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced sanctions against six officials associated with the Iranian intelligence agency for attacking critical infrastructure entities in the U.S. and other countries. The Read more…
Iranian Hackers Masquerade as Journalists to Spy on Israel-Hamas War Experts Jan 18, 2024NewsroomCyber Espionage / Threat Intelligence High-profile individuals working on Middle Eastern affairs at universities and research organizations in Belgium, France, Gaza, Israel, the U.K., and the U.S. have been targeted by an Iranian cyber espionage group called Read more…
Iranian Hackers Using MuddyC2Go in Telecom Espionage Attacks Across Africa Dec 19, 2023NewsroomCyber Espionage / Cyber Attack The Iranian nation-state actor known as MuddyWater has leveraged a newly discovered command-and-control (C2) framework called MuddyC2Go in its attacks on the telecommunications sector in Egypt, Sudan, and Tanzania. The Symantec Threat Hunter Read more…
Iranian State-Sponsored OilRig Group Deploys 3 New Malware Downloaders Dec 14, 2023NewsroomMalware / Cyber Espionage The Iranian state-sponsored threat actor known as OilRig deployed three different downloader malware throughout 2022 to maintain persistent access to victim organizations located in Israel. The three new downloaders have been named ODAgent, OilCheck, and Read more…
Iranian Hackers Exploit PLCs in Attack on Water Authority in U.S. Nov 29, 2023NewsroomCyber Attack / Hacking The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) revealed that it’s responding to a cyber attack that involved the active exploitation of Unitronics programmable logic controllers (PLCs) to target the Municipal Water Authority Read more…
200+ Malicious Android Apps Targeting Iranian Banks: Experts Warn Nov 29, 2023NewsroomMobile Security / Malware An Android malware campaign targeting Iranian banks has expanded its capabilities and incorporated additional evasion tactics to fly under the radar. That’s according to a new report from Zimperium, which discovered more than 200 malicious Read more…
New C2 Framework Iranian Hackers Using Against Israel Nov 09, 2023NewsroomCyber Attack / Malware Iranian nation-state actors have been observed using a previously undocumented command-and-control (C2) framework called MuddyC2Go as part of attacks targeting Israel. “The framework’s web component is written in the Go programming language,” Deep Instinct security researcher Read more…
Iranian Hackers Launches Destructive Cyberattacks on Israeli Tech and Education Sectors Nov 06, 2023NewsroomCyber War / Malware Israeli higher education and tech sectors have been targeted as part of a series of destructive cyber attacks that commenced in January 2023 with an aim to deploy previously undocumented wiper malware. The Read more…
Iranian Group Tortoiseshell Launches New Wave of IMAPLoader Malware Attacks Oct 26, 2023NewsroomCyber Threat / Malware The Iranian threat actor known as Tortoiseshell has been attributed to a new wave of watering hole attacks that are designed to deploy a malware dubbed IMAPLoader. “IMAPLoader is a .NET malware that has Read more…
Iranian Cyber Espionage Group Targets Financial and Government Sectors in Middle East A threat actor affiliated with Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) has been observed waging a sophisticated cyber espionage campaign targeting financial, government, military, and telecommunications sectors in the Middle East for at least a year. Israeli Read more…