Iran
TOP 5 ATT&CK techniques used by Threat Actors tied to Iran
On the 3rd of January 2020, the Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani was killed in a US drone strike ordered by President Donald Trump at Baghdad International Airport. Since then, popular demonstrations ...
Iran-Sponsored Hackers Might Be Probing U.S. Electric Sector
If the latest reports are to be believed, Iran-backed hackers are probing U.S. critical infrastructure by using password-spraying attacks, looking for weakness and human laziness. It’s no surprise that, following the conflict ...
Iranian APT Group Overview
Today the Birmingham InfraGard Chapter and the Alabama ISSA held a joint meeting featuring a presentation from the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency, part of DHS that was formerly known as the ...
U.S. Federal Website Defaced with Anti-Trump Message
The little-known website for the Federal Depository Library Program greeted visitors with an unusual image over the weekend, that of a bloody Donald Trump being punched in the face. It was posted ...
London Stock Exchange Outage: A Cyberattack? By Iran?
Secret sources say stock exchange failure might have been caused by a security breach. GCHQ, the "Brisish NSA" are said to be investigating a possible inside job, involving a bogus software update ...
Iranian Attacks on Industrial Control Systems
New details: At the CyberwarCon conference in Arlington, Virginia, on Thursday, Microsoft security researcher Ned Moran plans to present new findings from the company's threat intelligence group that show a shift in ...
Commerce Bureau Pegs More National Security Risks
The Department of Commerce’s U.S. Bureau of Industry and Commerce (BIC) has added 17 organizations from 11 countries to its “entity list,” citing national security concerns. Presence on the list means the ...
US Cyber-Attack on Iran, Poor Government Cybersecurity, Malvertising Campaigns
This is your Shared Security Weekly Blaze for July 1st 2019 with your host, Tom Eston. In this week’s episode: The US cyber-attack on Iran, the sad state of cybersecurity in the ...
U.S. Cyber Has Hacked Iranian Missile C&C, Say Super-Secret Sources
The U.S. has been hacking Iran. Despite President Trump’s cancellation of a kinetic retaliation, we’re now told of cyber strikes against Persia ...
Microsoft Hurts Charming Kitten (aka the APT35 Iran Hacking Group)
Microsoft has damaged a hacking group thought to be run by the Iranian military. APT35—also known as Charming Kitten, Ajax, and Phosphorus—has now lost control of 99 internet domains it was using ...
