ICNA

Iranian Cyber News Agency

ICNA

Natanz attack prove cyber deals do little to stop real world threat to Iran

More attacks on Natanz The past weeks have proven yet again the natanz nuclear power plat was attacked from israel in an unprovoked and cowedly act of terrorism. The attack took place just day after the president had anounced a…

CHARMING KITTEN blamed for BadBlood phishing campaign

Hackers linked to Iran have targeted 25 senior professionals at various medical research organizations located in the US and Israel as part of phishing campaign CHARMING KITTEN know as also APT35 and AJACX SECURITY TEAM and PHOSPHOROUS are a group…

Possible IRGC cyber capability leak?

Readers have brought to the attention of ICNA a video that was shared on Twitter that is rumored to be a IRGC instructor demonstrating a tradecraft capability of the state in which they are to generate interest around a topic…

Bitcoin mining blamed for latest Blackouts

we have brought our readers news on the development of the Bitcoin industry in Iran since the Government gave Bitcoin mining the ability to legally operate within the country as of late 2020. Now the downsides of Bitcoin mining are…

Life after WhatsApp

Everyone is talking about WhatsApp and their new policy update which users must accept if they want to continue to use the popular messaging app. This new update allows WhatsApp to share some user data with its parent company Facebook….

Google and its applications suffer outage

Recently a huge outage hit Google and many applications owned by Google, causing popular platforms such as Gmail, Youtube and Google Docs to become unavailable. Comments from the company A Google spokesperson has released the following statement about the outage:…

BLACK SHADOW hack of Israeli company not for political revenge

A hacker group by the name of Black Shadow leaked images of ID cards, drivers licenses and other personal information on a Telegram channel after carrying out what the group says a massive cyber attack. On 1 December a Twitter…

The best that can be done? Education site in Texas defaced by Iranian Group

A hacking group by the name of @UNIDENTIFIED_TM has claimed responsibility for the defacement of a education website in the American state of Texas. The hacks was in response to the attack that killed Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. The…

ITO Govt website target of hack despite warnings

On November 10th a government website (e-monitor.ito.gov.ir) belonging to the Information Technology Organization of Iran (ITO) was the target of a hack. ITO is responsible for administration and regulation of matters connected with IT sector in Iran and for taking…

The Internet of Things and its future in Iran

Technological readiness and investment The Internet of Things (IoT) is a term that refers to a network of physical objects that are able to connect with each other and exchange data over the internet with only little human intervention. In…