Iran Hackers

U.S. Charges 3 Iranian Hackers and Sanctions Several Others Over Ransomware Attacks

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Wide-ranging penalties against ten people and two organizations supported by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) for their involvement in ransomware attacks at least since October 2020 were announced on Wednesday by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). According to the FBI, some of the individuals’ online activities can be attributed […]

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Microsoft Discloses 6 Iranian Hacking Groups Turning to Ransomware

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There has been an increase in the adoption of ransomware as a means of generating revenue for nation-state operators with affiliations with Iran. So far, six threat actors with the West Asian country have been discovered deploying ransomware to achieve their strategic objectives, researchers from Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) revealed, adding that the ransomware

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Cybersecurity Agencies Release Warnings on Exploitation of Microsoft, Fortinet Flaws by Iranian Hackers

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A joint advisory warning of active exploitation of Fortinet and Microsoft Exchange Proxyshell has been released by cybersecurity agencies from Australia, U.S and the U.K. Iranian state-sponsored actors are believed to be behind this attacks and are leveraging multiple Fortinets FortiOS vulnerabilities dating back to March 2021 as well as a a remote code execution

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ISPs and Telecomms are Currently Targets of Iranian Hackers Lyceum

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Threat actors believed to be affiliated with Iran has been linked to series of targeted attacks aimed at telecommunication operators and internet service providers (ISPs) in Morocco, Saudi Arabia and Isreal and a few ministries of foreign affairs (MFA) in Africa. The group tracked as Lyceum is believed to have occurred between July and October

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