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Russian based hacking group REvil carries out attack on American company

Dear reader last week the largest ever ransomware attack took place 1500 companies were infected by the Russian ransomware hacking group REvil when they carried out attack on American based software vendor kaseya the group were able to use zero…

Eitan medical attack, N3tw0rm active again

With a new attack on Israeli company Eitan medical it appears n3tw0rm has been hard at work with more hacks and exfiltration of data from victims. After our first article was published, we discovered another company that fell victim to…

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…

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…

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…

Twitter hack shows that the insider threat cannot be removed

Yesterday many high profile Twitter accounts were hacked as part of a coordinated attack to spread a cryptocurrency scam. This is a big embarrassment for Twitter that is now the official voice of many world leaders. Users of the social…

SMS Virus Developed by Iranian Hacker Claims 100/000 Victims in Iran

In recent weeks a story that has attracted attention of many people has been the development and spreading of a virus by SMS, which was developed by Iranian hacker Pourya Emanverdi, who uses the username num1vps online. The story is…

Atash Security Group Attack Irancell

The hacker and administrator Omid Killer of the Iranian hacker group Atash Security Group has claimed responsibility for exposing a XSS -Cross Site Scripting- vulnerability in a subdomain of the Irancell cellular operator. The affected domain is: www.ecare.irancell.ir The link to…

Eagle Security Team Hack Saudi Sites

Latest Iranian cyber news from the Eagle Security Team shows that hackers have been attacking websites in Saudi Arabia. MR_7KH4T is the main hacker involved and the following site have been defaced: http://jaralkhaleej.com/ar/clients.php -Mirror: http://leetszone.com/mirror_52318.html–http://aldonia.com.sa/ar/ -Mirror: http://zone-h.org/mirror/id/27255987– Some of the…