Iran's Cyber-Kinetic War Doctrine Takes Shape
Iran has been hacking IP cameras to plan missile strikes against its enemies, and mounting other attacks on physical assets, showing how cyber and kinetic warfare are fast becoming one and the same.
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Iran has been hacking IP cameras to plan missile strikes against its enemies, and mounting other attacks on physical assets, showing how cyber and kinetic warfare are fast becoming one and the same.
The Iran-linked group Emennet Pasargad aims to undermine public confidence in Israeli and Western nations by using hack-and-leak campaigns and disrupting government services, including elections.
The cyberattackers allegedly stole information from US campaign officials only to turn around and weaponize it against unfavored candidates.
Feds confirmed Iran's involvement in email attack against Roger Stone after Microsoft, Google reported Iranian APT action against both presidential campaigns.
A state-sponsored hacking team employed a clever masquerade and elaborate back-end infrastructure as part of a five-year info-stealing campaign that compromised the US State and Treasury Departments, and hundreds of thousands of accounts overall.
UNC1549, aka Smoke Sandstorm and Tortoiseshell, appears to be the culprit behind a cyberattack campaign customized for each targeted organization.
Similar to what happened around the 2020 election, FBI warns that the Emennet Pasargad group is poised to target officials and companies with embarrassing hack-and-leak campaigns.
The attack on Israeli organizations is the latest in a long line of attempts to compromise supply chains, as the APT looks to leverage that access to target a multitude of potential victims.
Threat actor is using the flaw to deliver Core Impact backdoor on vulnerable systems, security vendor says.