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Hamas-Affiliated WIRTE Employs SameCoin Wiper in Disruptive Attacks Against Israel
2024-11-13 16:09

A threat actor affiliated with Hamas has expanded its malicious cyber operations beyond espionage to carry out disruptive attacks that exclusively target Israeli entities. The activity, linked to...

More Details on Israel Sabotaging Hezbollah Pagers and Walkie-Talkies
2024-10-15 11:06

The Washington Post has a long and detailed story about the operation that’s well worth reading (alternate version here). The sales pitch came from a marketing official trusted by Hezbollah with...

Israel’s Pager Attacks and Supply Chain Vulnerabilities
2024-09-24 11:05

Israel’s brazen attacks on Hezbollah last week, in which hundreds of pagers and two-way radios exploded and killed at least 37 people, graphically illustrated a threat that cybersecurity experts...

Lebanon now hit with deadly walkie-talkie blasts as Israel declares ‘new phase’ of war
2024-09-18 17:54

Second wave of exploding gear kills at least 14 today First it was pagers, now Lebanon is being rocked by Hezbollah's walkie-talkies detonating across the country, leaving more than a dozen dead.…

New Cyber Threat Targets Azerbaijan and Israel Diplomats, Stealing Sensitive Data
2024-08-15 06:45

A previously unknown threat actor has been attributed to a spate of attacks targeting Azerbaijan and Israel with an aim to steal sensitive data. The attack campaign, detected by NSFOCUS on July 1, 2024, leveraged spear-phishing emails to single out Azerbaijani and Israeli diplomats.

Iranian MOIS-Linked Hackers Behind Destructive Attacks on Albania and Israel
2024-05-20 16:05

An Iranian threat actor affiliated with the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) has been attributed as behind destructive wiping attacks targeting Albania and Israel under the personas...

Iran and Hezbollah Hackers Launch Attacks to Influence Israel-Hamas Narrative
2024-02-20 06:01

Hackers backed by Iran and Hezbollah staged cyber attacks designed to undercut public support for the Israel-Hamas war after October 2023. This includes destructive attacks against key Israeli...

Iran's cyber operations in Israel a potential prelude to US election interference
2024-02-07 16:30

Iran's anti-Israel cyber operations are providing a window into the techniques the country may deploy in the run-up to the 2024 US Presidential elections, Microsoft says. An analysis of Iran's activity, published by Microsoft Threat Analysis Center today, concluded that Iran may again target US elections as it did in 2020, using more sophisticated techniques from a wealth of different groups.

Iranian Hackers Masquerade as Journalists to Spy on Israel-Hamas War Experts
2024-01-18 04:16

High-profile individuals working on Middle Eastern affairs at universities and research organizations in Belgium, France, Gaza, Israel, the U.K., and the U.S. have been targeted by an Iranian...

OilRig targets Israel organizations with new lightweight downloaders
2023-12-15 11:37

ESET researchers analyzed a growing series of new OilRig downloaders that the group used in several campaigns throughout 2022 to maintain access to target organizations of special interest, all located in Israel. These downloaders share similarities with the MrPerfectionManager and PowerExchange backdoors - other recent additions to OilRig's toolset that use email-based C&C protocols - with the difference that SC5k, OilBooster, ODAgent, and OilCheck use attacker-controlled cloud service accounts rather than the victim's internal infrastructure.