Iranian state hackers carry out destructive attacks on Israel
Since the Hamas terrorist attack on Oct. 7, attacks by Iranian state hackers have been taking place aimed at undermining public support in Israel for the war. To this end, they are carrying out destructive attacks on key Israeli organizations.
This is according to research data from Mandiant and... Read more
‘No way to prevent Dutch chips from powering Russian and Iranian drones’
The use of Dutch chips in Russian and Iranian drones can't be completely prevented, according to foreign trade minister Schreinemacher.
Schreinemacher shared the statement in response to a meeting of the House of Representatives. According to the trade minister, it's impossible to completely p... Read more
Iranian state hackers attack VMware Horizon servers
The state sponsored TunnelVision group exploits critical Log4j flaw to infect targets with ransomware.
Hackers aligned with the government of Iran are exploiting the critical Log4j vulnerability to infect unpatched VMware users with ransomware, researchers said this week.
Security firm Sentin... Read more
‘Huawei shipped U.S. hardware to Iran despite trade ban’
American technology, which was not allowed to be exported to Iran due to a trade ban, was shipped from China by Huawei to Iran. This is evidenced by internal Huawei documents held by Reuters.
The documents are two packing lists from December 2010, which show computer equipment from the American ... Read more
US accuses Huawei of helping Iran
The United States (US) has again filed a number of charges against Huawei. One of the accusations states that the telecom provider helped Iran, the country with which America is currently in conflict.
The US, in the cahrges, point to countries that have been sanctioned, of which Iran is one. Acc... Read more
Iranian cyber attack on US government website launched
A group of Iranian hackers has taken down an American government website and have left a message claiming that they work for the Iranian state. The tensions between the US and Iran are now shifting to the cyber world as well, as the hackers claim retaliation for the death of the Iranian general Sol... Read more
Slack blocks accounts of people who have been to Iran
Slack has started blocking accounts with connections to Iran and other countries. Some of the users would hardly have any ties to Iran and live in countries like Canada, Finland and the United States, but noticed that their Slack account was suddenly deactivated.
That's what the BBC is reporting tod... Read more
“Highly destructive malware Shamoon is the work of Iranian hackers.
A series of attacks with the malware Shamoon seems to have originated in an Iranian hacker group. The McAfee Advanced Threat Research Team states that APT33 - or a group pretending to be the Iranian hacker group of the same name - is responsible for a recent series of attacks against industries in E... Read more