Finally the law is clear: the Iranian Bitcoin market is ready for business
From the invention of the digital currency Bitcoin in 2008 until recent time, the legal status of this controversial crypto-currency in Iran has been very unclear. However, the legislation that the Council of Ministers passed in 2019 which states that…
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…
Are the explosions in Iran a result of cyber attacks?
Readers of this post already will have seen news reports of the recent explosions in Iran. After the explosion at the Parchin military complex and the second at the Sina Athar Medical center, the Natanz nuclear enrichment facility site was…
The fight against cyber censorship is a game we must play
If you read this article outside Iran let us tell you that gaming is a very important activity in this country. There are estimates that there are much over 25 million gamers in Iran and it is surprising to some…
Websites defaced in revenge but Iran’s hackers want more unity
Two months ago we published an article about defacement of US government FDLP website in response to the murder of General Ghassem Soleimani. Our investigation into this defacement has found that this defacement was done by ESPAD security team. At…
Iranian hackers deface U.S. website in response to assassination of General Ghassem Soleimani
General Ghassem Soleimani in his life achieved great victories over Iran’s enemies and he died and achieved martyrdom in this path. Iranians expect revenge on the U.S. in the name of the martyr Haj Ghassem Soleimani and expect a cyber-attack…
Turla VS Oilrig: when APTs clash
Russian APT uses then abuses Iranian APT tools and infrastructure Turla background Turla (Venomous Bear, KRYPTON, WATERBUG) is a Russian APT operating since approximately 2005 who use spear phishing and watering hole campaigns and develop tools and malware. The…
MICROSOFT are angry at CHARMING KITTEN……. again
A blog by Microsoft’s vice president of security and trust says that the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center observed the iranian cyber group CHARMING KITTEN (Phosphorous) try to access customer accounts. Microsoft reported that the activity targeted accounts that belonged to:…
Are you safe from the new zero-day Android exploit?
Google has identified another new zero-day exploit in Android devices (Apple users can skip to a different article!). This is the last in a series of Android exploits called CVE-2019-2215. This is not a warning by Google, this exploit is…
How to do a bank robbery without the guns
In September a iranian cloud service provider named ArvanCloud reported that a number of digital currency websites experienced a DDOS attack and the three victim named were arzjoo.com and excoino.com and avalpardakht.com. The attack on Arzjoo was the greatest and…