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Pierluigi Paganini August 24, 2020

Cybercriminal greeners from Iran attack companies worldwide for financial gain

Group-IB has detected financially motivated attacks carried out in June by newbie threat actors from Iran. The attackers used Dharma ransomware and a mix of publicly available tools to target companies in Russia, Japan, China, and India. All the affected organizations had hosts with Internet-facing RDP and weak credentials. The hackers typically demanded a ransom between 1-5 […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 20, 2020

Two more cyber attacks hit Israel’s water facilities in June

In April a cyber attack hit an Israeli water facility, last week, officials revealed two more cyber attacks against other water management facilities. In April an attack hit an Israeli water facility attempting to modify water chlorine levels, last week officials from the Water Authority revealed two more cyber attacks on other facilities in the […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 17, 2020

Iran-linked APT35 accidentally exposed 40 GB associated with their operations

Iran-linked APT35 group accidentally exposed one of its servers, leaving online roughly 40 GB of videos and other files associated with its operations. Researchers at IBM X-Force Incident Response Intelligence Services (IRIS) discovered an unsecured server belonging to Iran-linked APT35 group (aka ITG18, Charming Kitten, Phosphorous, and NewsBeef) containing data for many domains managed by […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 16, 2020

CIA covert operations likely behind attacks against APT34 and FSB

CIA orchestrated dozens of hacking operations against targets worldwide, including APT34 and FSB hacks, states an exclusive report from Yahoo News. In 2018, US President Trump gave to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) more powers to conduct covert offensive cyber operations against hostile threat actors, including Iranian and Russian APT groups and intelligence agencies. In […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 03, 2020

Alleged cyber attacks caused fire and explosions at nuclear and military facilities in Iran

The root cause of a series of explosions at important facilities in Iran may be cyberattacks allegedly launched by Israel. A recent sequence of fires and explosions at important Iranian facilities may have been caused by cyber attacks as part of an operation conducted by Israel. Recently several major Iranian industrial facilities suffered a sequence […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 05, 2020

Google reveals that foreign hackers are already targeting Trump and Biden campaigns

Google researchers revealed that campaign staffs for both President Donald Trump and Joe Biden have been targeted recently by foreign hackers. Foreign hackers are targeting campaign staffs for both President Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden ahead of the November US election. The news was revealed by Google in a series of tweets published […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 12, 2020

A cyber attack hit a port on Strait of Hormuz, Iran said

Iran ‘s officials revealed that hackers compromised and damaged a small number of computers at the port of Shahid Rajaei in the city of Bandar Abbas. Iranian officials announced on sunday that hackers damaged a small number of systems at the port of Shahid Rajaei in the city of Bandar Abbas. Bandar Abbas is the […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 04, 2020

Iranian government blocked Wikipedia Farsi due Coronavirus outbreak

The Coronavirus outbreak is a global emergency, in the last hours Iran is one of the countries with the highest number of infections and Wikipedia Farsi was blocked as fears spread. The NetBlocks internet observatory, which tracks disruptions and shutdowns, revealed that Iran has blocked access to the Farsi (Persian) language edition of the Wikipedia online […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 17, 2020

Fox Kitten Campaign – Iranian hackers exploit 1-day VPN flaws in attacks

Iranian hackers have been hacking VPN servers to plant backdoors in companies around the world Iran-linked attackers targeted Pulse Secure, Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks, and Citrix VPNs to hack into large companies as part of the Fox Kitten Campaign. During the last quarter of 2019, experts from security firm ClearSky uncovered a hacking campaign tracked […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 09, 2020

Massive DDoS attack brought down 25% Iranian Internet connectivity

Iran comes under cyber-attack again, a massive offensive brought down a large portion of the Iranian access to the Internet. Iran infrastructures are under attack, a massive cyberattack brought down a large portion of the Iranian access to the Internet, according to the experts the national connectivity fell to 75%. The NetBlocks internet observatory, which […]

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Cybercriminal greeners from Iran attack companies worldwide for financial gain

Two more cyber attacks hit Israel’s water facilities in June

Iran-linked APT35 accidentally exposed 40 GB associated with their operations

CIA covert operations likely behind attacks against APT34 and FSB

Alleged cyber attacks caused fire and explosions at nuclear and military facilities in Iran

Google reveals that foreign hackers are already targeting Trump and Biden campaigns

A cyber attack hit a port on Strait of Hormuz, Iran said

Iranian government blocked Wikipedia Farsi due Coronavirus outbreak

Fox Kitten Campaign – Iranian hackers exploit 1-day VPN flaws in attacks

Massive DDoS attack brought down 25% Iranian Internet connectivity

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