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Iran covers cybersecurity and information-security developments connected to Iran, including incidents, policy, privacy, advisories, research, and news affecting organizations, public services, and digital systems in the area.
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For months, the Iran-backed APT has carried out waves of password spray attacks attempting to authenticate to thousands of environments across multiple targets worldwide.
APT33 activity resulted in data theft from small number of victims
Iranian nation-state actors have been conducting password spray attacks against thousands of organizations globally between February and July 2023, new findings from Microsoft reveal
Dark Reading News Desk: CrowdStrike's Adam Meyers talks China, Iran, Russia, and more in this expert dive into the current APT threat actor landscape.
Microsoft says an Iranian-backed threat group has targeted thousands of organizations in the U.S. and worldwide in password spray attacks since February 2023. [...]
Archrivals face off in the cyber plane, as opportunistic hackers prey on the unpatched and generally negligent.
Known security vulnerabilities in the enterprise products allowed unauthorized access through a public-facing application, US Cyber Command said.
A nation-state threat actor known as 'Charming Kitten' (Phosphorus, TA453, APT35/42) has been observed deploying a previously unknown backdoor malware named 'Sponsor' against 34 companies around the globe. [...]
The Iranian threat actor known as Charming Kiten has been linked to a new wave of attacks targeting different entities in Brazil, Israel, and the U.A.E. using a previously undocumented backdoor named Sponsor