All posts tagged "Iranian hackers"

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  U.S. Treasury Sanctions Iranian Firms and Individuals Tied to Cyber Attacks

  The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Monday sanctioned two firms and four individuals for their involvement in...

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  U.S. Treasury Hamas Spokesperson for Cyber Influence Operations

  The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Friday announced sanctions against an official associated with Hamas for his...

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  Iranian Hackers Masquerade as Journalists to Spy on Israel-Hamas War Experts

  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....

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  Iranian Hackers’ Sophisticated Malware Targets Windows and macOS Users

  The Iranian nation-state actor known as TA453 has been linked to a new set of spear-phishing attacks that infect both Windows and...

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  Iranian Agrius Hackers Targeting Israeli Organizations with Moneybird Ransomware

  The Iranian threat actor known as Agrius is leveraging a new ransomware strain called Moneybird in its attacks targeting Israeli organizations. Agrius,...

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  Charming Kitten’s New BellaCiao Malware Discovered in Multi-Country Attacks

  The prolific Iranian nation-state group known as Charming Kitten is actively targeting multiple victims in the U.S., Europe, the Middle East and...

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  Iranian Hackers Launch Sophisticated Attacks Targeting Israel with PowerLess Backdoor

  An Iranian nation-state threat actor has been linked to a new wave of phishing attacks targeting Israel that’s designed to deploy an...

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  Iranian Government-Backed Hackers Targeting U.S. Energy and Transit Systems

  An Iranian government-backed actor known as Mint Sandstorm has been linked to attacks aimed at critical infrastructure in the U.S. between late...

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  Iran-Based Hackers Caught Carrying Out Destructive Attacks Under Ransomware Guise

  The Iranian nation-state group known as MuddyWater has been observed carrying out destructive attacks on hybrid environments under the guise of a...

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  MuddyWater Hackers Target Asian and Middle East Countries with Updated Tactics

  The Iran-linked MuddyWater threat actor has been observed targeting several countries in the Middle East as well as Central and West Asia...

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  Iranian Hackers Compromised a U.S. Federal Agency’s Network Using Log4Shell Exploit

  Iranian government-sponsored threat actors have been blamed for compromising a U.S. federal agency by taking advantage of the Log4Shell vulnerability in an...

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  U.S. Charges 3 Iranian Hackers and Sanctions Several Others Over Ransomware Attacks

  The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Wednesday announced sweeping sanctions against ten individuals and two entities backed...

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  Microsoft Warns of Ransomware Attacks by Iranian Phosphorus Hacker Group

  Microsoft’s threat intelligence division on Wednesday assessed that a subgroup of the Iranian threat actor tracked as Phosphorus is conducting ransomware attacks...

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  Iranian Hackers Exploiting Unpatched Log4j 2 Bugs to Target Israeli Organizations

  Iranian state-sponsored actors are leaving no stone unturned to exploit unpatched systems running Log4j to target Israeli entities, indicating the vulnerability’s long...

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  Iranian Hackers Likely Behind Disruptive Cyberattacks Against Albanian Government

  A threat actor working to further Iranian goals is said to have been behind a set of damaging cyberattacks against Albanian government...

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  State-Backed Hackers Targeting Journalists in Widespread Espionage Campaigns

  Nation-state hacking groups aligned with China, Iran, North Korea, and Turkey have been targeting journalists to conduct espionage and spread malware as...

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  Iranian Hackers Spotted Using a new DNS Hijacking Malware in Recent Attacks

  The Iranian state-sponsored threat actor tracked under the moniker Lyceum has turned to using a new custom .NET-based backdoor in recent campaigns...

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  Iranian Hackers Leveraging BitLocker and DiskCryptor in Ransomware Attacks

  A ransomware group with an Iranian operational connection has been linked to a string of file-encrypting malware attacks targeting organizations in Israel,...

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  Iran’s MuddyWater Hacker Group Using New Malware in Worldwide Cyber Attacks

  Cybersecurity agencies from the U.K. and the U.S. have laid bare a new malware used by the Iranian government-sponsored advanced persistent threat...

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  Iranian Hackers Using New Marlin Backdoor in ‘Out to Sea’ Espionage Campaign

  An advanced persistent threat (APT) group with ties to Iran has refreshed its malware toolset to include a new backdoor dubbed Marlin...

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  Hacker Group ‘Moses Staff’ Using New StrifeWater RAT in Ransomware Attacks

  A politically motivated hacker group tied to a series of espionage and sabotage attacks on Israeli entities in 2021 incorporated a previously...