Analysis of Café Bazaar apps reveal concerning malware problem
Overview of Café Bazaar Café Bazaar is an Iranian android marketplace created by Reza Mohammadi and Jessam Armandehi and has announced that the platform has surpassed 40 million users. For our non-iranian readers Cafe Bazaar offers its services for specifically…
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….
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…
Hosein)root Discovers XSS Vulnerability on Google Earth
On 25 November Hosein)root who asked ICNA publish his true name as Amir Hossein Sharbati on CXSecurity and some other places published his XSS vulnerability that he discovered in Google Earth. The vulnerability is of this nature that if KML…
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…
Defacement of Hafez Institute of Higher Education by UnSec Team
ICNA was contacted yesterday, 19 October, by UnSec Team member Mostafa Asadi concerning the hack and defacement of the website of Hafez Institute of Higher Education, Shiraz, Iran. Although of course this kind of activities are illegal in Iran, according…
Iranian TYRANT Ransomware
A new type of ransomware have been discovered on October 16 2017 which appears to be Iranian. The Tyrant Ransomware is a data encryption Trojan that is classified as a mid-tier crypto-threat. The threat appears to be used in attacks on…
Who are the Iran Malware Team?
ICNA have found a mysterious Iranian hacking team called the “Iran Malware Team”. We have not heard of them before and would like to know more. They have a website at iranmalware.team and their site shows they appear to be…