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The Iranian state-sponsored threat actor known as Charming Kitten employed new spear-phishing methods in a campaign observed in August and September, ClearSky’s security researchers report. read more
Microsoft said Friday that hackers linked to the Iranian government targeted a U.S. presidential campaign, as well as government officials, media targets and prominent expatriate Iranians. read more
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is denying his country would interfere with the upcoming U.S. presidential election and says his government doesn’t have a preference in the race. read more
'Cobalt Dickens' Group Attempting to Steal Intellectual Property"Cobalt Dickens," a threat group with suspected ties to Iran, is continuing its attempts to steal intellectual property from schools...
Yahoo News reported this week that an Iranian mole recruited by Dutch intelligence helped the United States and Israel sabotage Iran’s nuclear program by planting the read more
The Iran-linked cyber-espionage group OilRig has started using three new malware families in campaigns observed over the past month, FireEye reports. read more
Government-backed campaign going after bug that was patched in 2017 An ongoing Iranian government-backed hacking campaign is now trying to exploit a Microsoft Outlook flaw from 2017.…
The U.S. Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) on Tuesday warned that it had spotted attacks exploiting a Microsoft Outlook vulnerability tracked as CVE-2017-11774 in an effort to deliver malware. read more
The Iran-linked cyberespionage group APT33 has updated its infrastructure following a March 2019 report detailing its activities, according to researchers from Recorded Future. read more
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