attacking cryptocurrency exchanges, it would be easy to underestimate Iran's potential as a cyberthreat to the U.S.On one hand, most analyses describe the Middle Eastern republic's offensive cyber capabilities as fractured, decentralized, and inferior to those of the U.S., Russia, and China....
Following the Developing Iranian CyberthreatDorothy DenningThe Conversation US
After the US assassinated top Iranian general, Qasem Soleimani, in 2020, the US Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency published an official guidance,warning US companiesto prepare for a possible wave of cyber-attacks from Iran. At the time the threat wa...
what we had assessed … about the intent of the Iranian government: to probe and find vulnerabilities in American critical infrastructure,” said Fred Kagan, a national security scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute and co-author of a recent report on the Iranian cyber threat. ...
3e.nemiesOfThePeopl.e3@gmail.com The post-election creation of the Enemies of the People website demonstrates an ongoing Iranian intent to create divisions and mistrust in the United States and undermine public confidence in the U.S. electoral process. As referenced in Joint Cyb...
Iran may not be a cyber superpower, but it has been making a concentrated effort over recent years to strengthen its position in the field. The aid from China and Russia, the loyalty of hundreds of volunteer hackers, and its audacity make it an enemy tha
The state-sponsored hacking group has beenpreviously connectedto cyberattacks against US aerospace, industrial, and business entities, as well asuniversities, in information theft and cyberespionage campaigns. In 2018, Iran was cited as a "growing threat" in the cybersecurity landscape by Accenture....
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency sees no evidence that Iranian hackers gained unauthorized access to American water system operational facilities after a Tehran threat actor attacked a small Pennsylvania municipal water authority for its use of Israeli-designed equipment....
144 us universities a new indictment asserts a long string of attacks against hundreds of universities and private companies, in which iran pilfered more than $3 billion worth of intellectual property. norbert michalke/getty images save save in its latest drumbeat against the cyber activities of ...
In late November 2023, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)revealedthat the Municipal Water Authority of Aliquippa in western Pennsylvania was targeted by Iranian threat actors by exploiting Unitronics PLCs. The attack was attributed to an Iranian hacktivist persona dubbed...