(By Frank Wood on December 2, 2021) Executive Summary Iranian cyber capabilities are meager in comparison to many well-developed nations. However, it is rapidly expanding its cyber ...
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Global Weekly Executive Summary, 13 April 2018
State of Hawaii Targeted in Iranian Data Theft The U.S. Department of Justice’s recent indictment of nine Iranians accused of conducting cyberattacks contained a list of targeted organizations ...
Global Weekly Executive Summary, 19 JAN 2018
Dark Caracal Summary A newly discovered global cyberespionage threat group has ties to a government intelligence agency in Lebanon, according to a joint report from Lookout Mobile Security and ...
Global Weekly Executive Summary, 20 OCT 2017
British Intelligence Suspects Iran in Parliament Email Attacks British intelligence now suspects that Iran was the source of the June 2017 brute force attacks against 9,000 UK Parliament email ...
Mia Ash and the Cobalt Gypsy Iranian Threat Group
Cobalt Gypsy, the Iranian threat group believed to be behind the Shamoon and Shamoon2 destructive wiper attacks that rendered 25,000 computers at oil company Saudi Aramco unusable, may be connected ...
NotPetya Ransomware Disrupts Merck Vaccine Production
Merck, a global leader in drug and vaccine production, may be unable to produce hepatitis B vaccines until 2018 because of worldwide production disruptions resulting from the NotPetya ransomware ...
Petya Group Bitcoins on the Move, New Message Posted
Petya Group Bitcoins on the Move, New Message Posted The hacking group behind Petya/NotPetya/ExPetr withdrew all bitcoins from the bitcoin wallet associated with the ransomware on Tuesday, July ...
Global Weekly Executive Summary June 2, 2017
WannaCry Attribution Security researchers around the world have identified clues linking the global WannaCry cyberattacks to Lazarus Group, a prolific hacking group with suspected ties to North ...
Hajime vs. Mirai, A Botnet Battle?
The Hajime worm spreading through unsecured IoT devices seems to be purposely making them more secure. Hajime vs Mirai Last October, the Mirai botnet launched the largest ever distributed ...
Shadow Brokers Dump More Stolen NSA Tools
On Friday, the hacking group The Shadow Brokers released another batch of files that they say were taken from the NSA. After analyzing the files, security researchers found two key pieces of ...