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Iran Calls U.S. Tech Companies ‘Legitimate Targets,’ Threatens to Attack
The Iranian government is threatening to attack the Middle East operations of more than a dozen U.S. tech companies, including Microsoft, Nvidia, and Google, calling them "legitimate targets." Meanwhile, pro-Iranian threat groups ...
Iran-Linked Threat Group Hacks FBI Director Kash Patel’s Personal Email
Iran-linked threat group Handala hacked into the personal email account of FBI Director Kash Patel, posting photos of him and links to documents found in the account. The DOJ confirmed the attack, ...
FBI Seizes Two Websites Linked to Pro-Iranian Group Handala
The FBI has seized two websites, including the leak site, of Handala, a highly active pro-Iranian threat group responsible for the high-profile wiping attack on U.S.-based medical tech company Stryker in which ...
Cyberattacks Spike 245% in the Two Weeks After the Start of War With Iran
Akamai researchers saw a 245% spike in cyberattacks in the first two weeks after the start of the U.S. and Israeli war against Iran as Iranian nation-state groups and independent hacktivists launch ...
Iranian Hackers Attack U.S. Company Stryker in Escalation of Cyber War
Iranian nation-state group Handala claims it attacked U.S. medical tech giant Stryker, erasing the data from 200,000 corporate servers and mobile devices and stealing 50 TB of data in retaliation for a ...
Pro-Iranian Hacktivists Join Nation-State Groups in Targeting U.S., Israel, Others
More than 60 hacktivist groups, armed with AI, mobilized within hours of the U.S. and Israel first striking Iran, adding another element to an already active and expanding cyberthreat environment that includes ...
U.S. Lawmakers, White House Move to Stem China Cyberthreat
Two U.S. House committees want more information about the hack by China threat group Salt Typhoon into the networks of AT&T, Verizon, and Lumen while the White House reportedly is creating an ...
Privacy in Q2 2022: US, Canada, and the UK
The second quarter of 2022 offered plenty of positing on privacy, both in the U.S. and internationally. In the U.S., we saw the addition of another state privacy law, and a spark ...
Operation GhostShell: Novel RAT Targets Global Aerospace and Telecoms Firms
In July 2021, the Cybereason Nocturnus and Incident Response Teams responded to Operation GhostShell, a highly-targeted cyber espionage campaign targeting the Aerospace and Telecommunications industries mainly in the Middle East, with additional ...
