Advanced Persistent Threats: Part one of ICNAs Hacker Series
ADVANCED PERSISTENT THREATS Dear readers in our previous article titled The increasing problem of hacking in Iran we talked about different hacking groups operating in our country. In the coming weeks we will publish a number of articles as…
Internet freedom: Iran escapes last-place to China as the worlds least free country on the net
Freedom on the net report published for 2021 Iran has received second-last place in a report ranking the world’s internet freedom by country. The yearly report published in english by Freedom House, a pro democracy organization that identifies threats to…
Iran traffic police (Rahvar) latest victim in a string of attacks
Another successful hack? The Telegram channel @NMAToday reported that over 14 million vehicle profiles from within Iran have been leaked from internal servers within the Iranian traffic police (Rahvar) databases. where the Rahvar leak was discovered The Cyber intelligence group…
Rubika accused of dirty tricks to beat instagram in Iranian market
Rubika aims to become more used within Iran The Iranian social media app named Rubika is accused of copying peoples Instagram accounts and placing the accounts on its own platform to boost the appearance of its popularity. Rubika is similar…
Secret documents linked to the IRGC have emerged
Dear readers it has come to our attention that secret documents linked to the IRGC have emerged allegedly from Iran that reveal a secret investigation and research by a group linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard called Shahid Kaveh The…
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…
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…
N3tw0rm Attack: Israeli firms targeted by suspected Iranian group
A new group of ransomware hackers quickly becoming known online as N3tw0rm has started effecting users in Israel. Twitter users started picking up the story on 3 May, and now a group called OP innovate who are a cyber security…
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…