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Malware: Iranian ISP spearphished to spread awareness of IRGC malicious activity

Iranian ISPs spearphished to reveal IRGC use of malware a large spearphishing campaign has targeted at least two Iranian ISPs according to ICNAs contacts within Shatel and Respina. The intent of the spearphishing does not appear to be malicious in…

Reveng3rs group responsible for hacking western companies

A group by the name of Revengers, also seen as reveng3rs and reveng3rz are claiming responsibility for the hack of the Israeli company called Hemilton on Telegram back in the month of february. The group says it has gained access…

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…

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….

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…

Iran hackers accused of sending threatening Proud Boys emails to Democrats

On wednesday night officials of the United States accused Iran of targeting American Democrat voters with faked emails that warned that both Iran and Russia has obtained voter data that could be used to threaten and disrupt the US election….