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Iranian Hackers Set Up New Network to Target U.S. Political Campaigns
Cybersecurity researchers have unearthed new network infrastructure set up by Iranian threat actors to support activities linked to the recent…
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U.S. Agencies Warn of Iranian Hacking Group’s Ongoing Ransomware Attacks
U.S. cybersecurity and intelligence agencies have called out an Iranian hacking group for breaching multiple organizations across the country and…
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Meta Exposes Iranian Hacker Group Targeting Global Political Figures on WhatsApp
Meta Platforms on Friday became the latest company after Microsoft, Google, and OpenAI to expose the activities of an Iranian…
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OpenAI Blocks Iranian Influence Operation Using ChatGPT for U.S. Election Propaganda
OpenAI on Friday said it banned a set of accounts linked to what it said was an Iranian covert influence…
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DOJ Charges Nashville Man for Helping North Koreans Get U.S. Tech Jobs
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Thursday charged a 38-year-old individual from Nashville, Tennessee, for allegedly running a “laptop…
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Iranian Hackers Deploy New BugSleep Backdoor in Middle East Cyber Attacks
The Iranian nation-state actor known as MuddyWater has been observed using a never-before-seen backdoor as part of a recent attack…
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Iranian MOIS-Linked Hackers Behind Destructive Attacks on Albania and Israel
An Iranian threat actor affiliated with the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) has been attributed as behind destructive wiping…
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APT42 Hackers Pose as Journalists to Harvest Credentials and Access Cloud Data
The Iranian state-backed hacking outfit called APT42 is making use of enhanced social engineering schemes to infiltrate target networks and…
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U.S. Treasury Sanctions Iranian Firms and Individuals Tied to Cyber Attacks
The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Monday sanctioned two firms and four individuals for their…
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Iranian MuddyWater Hackers Adopt New C2 Tool ‘DarkBeatC2’ in Latest Campaign
The Iranian threat actor known as MuddyWater has been attributed to a new command-and-control (C2) infrastructure called DarkBeatC2, becoming the…
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