Cyber Attacks Security Iranian State Hackers Team Up with Ransomware Gangs in Attacks on US State-Sponsored Espionage Meets Ransomware! byWaqas August 29, 2024 Security Malware Phishing Scam Iran’s MuddyWater APT targets Saudis and Israelis with BugSleep Backdoor ...
A trove of Iranian reports by “Shahid Kaveh,” an offensive cyber unit within the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), revealed research on how to use cyberattacks to disrupt cargo vessels’ water filtration and ballast systems. The reports appear to be sponsored by the highest levels of...
New Backdoor ‘BugSleep’ Discovered in MuddyWater Phishing Attacks. Cybersecurity researchers uncover a custom-made backdoor used by the notorious MuddyWater hacking group to gain remote access to compromised systems. Learn about the new threat and how to protect yourself from phishing scams. Irani...
Posted onDecember 17, 2020byClearSky Research Team During the past four months a wave of cyber-attacks has been targeting Israeli companies. The attacks are conducted by different means and target a range of sectors. We estimate with medium to high confidence that Pay2Key is a new operation ...
Cyberattacks against national infrastructures, such as banking, energy, water, transportation, or healthcare systems, have an impact on the battlefield and the ability to achieve military and state goals. In this context, one can also recall the Russian cyberattack on Ukraine’s power grid during...
“Attacks on our critical infrastructure like water are unacceptable,” Deluzio said in the statement. “I intend to push for a full investigation here and accountability for the attackers, and I will continue the important bipartisan work on the House Armed Services Cyber, Information T...
“Water can cause a cascade or domino effect... as well as transportation like a seaport on the other side,” in another obvious reference to Iran. The cyber chief said that four years ago the INCD was focused on protecting 30-40 entities, but that now INCD is “dealing with hundreds…...
Cyber adversaries, including Iran, have generally aimed attacks at targets unlikely to fully draw a response from the U.S.’s own potent cyberwarfare arsenal. Evidence of possible retaliation of the American drone strike emerged late on Jan. 4 when the website for the little-known U.S. Fede...
MuddyWater, also known as Mango Sandstorm (previously Mercury), is a cyber espionage group that's known to operate on behalf of Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) since at least 2017. The findings arrive nearly three months after Microsoft implicated the threat actor for carryi...
Israel is now braced for further cyber attacks. “Cyber winter is coming and coming even faster than I suspected,” Yigal Unna, the head of Israel’s National Cyber Directorate told a conference last week, without mentioning Iran’s alleged role in the suspected attack on the water station. ...