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Hackers took over the official Twitter account of Iran’s state Television ‘Al-Alam’ on Sunday, leaving material supportive of the Saudi-led air war against Iran-backed rebels in Yemen. Al-Alam has blamed Saudi government for targeting the channel due to its critical coverage of Yemen war. After taking over Al-Alam’s twitter account (@alalam_news), hackers started posting false reports about […]
A 27-year-old graduate student Mohammad Yousefi, was sent to prison in Iran as part of a crackdown on social media users by using “Black Spider” trapping project. Former Green activist Mohammad Yousefi has quietly been held in detention for two months. Detention is under control of Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and a case is also […]
Shocking acceleration in the use of Cyberweapons between Iran and the U.S against each other has been revealed in a newly released National Security Agency document. This document was prepared for the then director of the NSA Gen. Keith B. Alexander in April 2013. As per the illustration in this document, Iran and the US […]
On the morning of February 10, 2014, the Las Vegas Sands casino, something was not right. Computers were flat-lining, telephone lines stopped working, emails were down, and several IT systems came to a halt and it wasn’t even time for the gamblers to be up yet. The $14 billion casino operation came to a standstill […]
An Iranian hacker going with the handle of MoHaMaD VaKeR hacked and defaced the official sub-domain ofTelecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) of United Arab Emirates (UAE), two days ago on 25th Oct 2014. The targeted sub-domain reportedly belongs to IPV6 training forum. Hacker left a deface page along with a message on hacked domain, bashing the site admin […]
In order to demolish North Korean nuclear facilities, South Korea has decided to develop its own cyber attack tools. Stuxnet kind of weapons have been proposed by the country’s defense ministry, the same Stuxnet software which was designed to target and destroy Iranian nuclear plants. Yonhap news agency reported that: The South Korean military will carry out missions using […]
We have always heard about drones killing people in Afghanistan and Pakistan or most of the times used for surveillance purposes. But now there is a drone that can actually save lives. Iranian engineers at RTS Lab in Tehran have successfully tested their first ever Pars Rescue Robot Drone with amazing ability to quickly locate drowning […]
A hacker going with the handle of OxAlien has hacked and breached into the database of Israeli based largest Apple and MAC related forum (http://forum.mac-it.co.il/). As a result the hacker has managed to leak around 13,000 login account details of forum’s users. The hacker contacted me on Twitter, explained that he is a hardcore Palestinian supporter and […]
An Iranian hacker going with the handle of HellBoy had hacked and defaced a sub-domain of an official Tourism website of Washington DC ( http://lincolnball.washington.org/) on July 25th 2013, which is hacked till today October 31st 2013. Hacker left a deface page along with a message on the hacked on sub-domain, bashing the administrator for poor site […]
Iran is now the world’s fourth biggest cyber army, claims an official of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps stressing that the IRGC’s power is seen as a major counterbalance to the US and Israel in the region. Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (“IRGC”)’s Brigadier General Mohammad Hossein Sepehr has said that Iran with its cyberwarfare capabilities is “the fourth […]
The official Twitter account of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was found following an Iranian porn Twitter account before unsubscribing Sunday morning, about seven hours after The Times of Israel broke the story. On sunday morning, the verified Twitter account of Israeli prime minister @Netanyahu started following around 90 Twitter accounts, mostly belonging to Israeli government and its […]
The head of the cyber warfare program of Iran has been shot dead. This act will further boost the allegations that the foreign powers are aiding assassinations of the key security figures of the country. Mojtaba Ahmadi has been commanding the headquarters of the cyber warfare program of Iran. He was found dead near Karaj […]
Some of the US officials of the Navy have stated that some hackers from Iran have penetrated into the unclassified computer networks of the US navy. On December 06, 2012, I reported that US Navy facing 110,000 cyber attacks every hour. Now The Wall Street Journal has published a report on 27th September in which they […]
Iranians were surprised to see Social media websites working inside the country without using any proxy server or virtual private network (VPN) but the happiness did not last for long as the sites were blocked again on Tuesday. The sudden opening of social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter was a big surprise inside […]
Iran has claimed to hack and bring down a surveillance drone spying on it during a military exercise on Saturday. Iranˈs Revolutionary Guard Corps conducted a hacking operation on foreign surveillance during the first day of military exercises going on with the name of Payambar-e Azam 8 (The Great Prophet 8). Islamic Republic News Agency reports that Iran’s General Hamid Sarkheili who […]
Iran has finally released a video footage of hacked US surveillance drone captured in 2011. BBC reports that It is yet unclear if the video is genuine or not was broadcasted on Iranian state television show a US base and the Afghan city of Kandahar. The video was recorded by Drone. In 2011 Iran had […]
U.S.A has been one of the prime centers of cyber crimes in recent times and we this time around came to know one of horrifying facts regarding cyber crimes in U.S. Nearly, all the banks since September has been compromised by the cyber criminals. This includes all the leading banks of U.S: Bank of America, […]
The controversial death of a 35-year old Iranian blogger has shocked everyone around the world and has put questions over the Iran’s cyber crime unit. Recently, Iran’s cyber crime laws were made stronger in order to remove violating or abusive content with precision. Since then there were many popular bloggers were arrested but a death was quite […]
Iranian cyber police has arrested a hacker suspected of hacking more then 1,000 Israeli and United States based websites. According to a report in Trend, the Iranian hacker earlier claimed to bypass all the securities set against the sites and had not only accessed the server but also gained access to the sensitive data stored, the […]
Iran’s state TV has accused the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) for hacking into the official website of the channel and changing the results of a poll about Iran’s nuclear programme. According to the BBC’s Farsi (Persian) language channel report, ”the poll showed 63% of those who took part favoured halting uranium enrichment in exchange for an end to […]
After throwing sanctions on Iran by the West, the country decided to depend on its own resources and there is no boundary or sanction when it comes to developing your own platform. Yes, Iran’s cyber defense headquarters has developed its own local mail server for internal use, by the help of this internal mail server(s) Iranian companies can now use local email addresses. […]