Counter Galois Onion: Improved encryption for Tor circuit traffic
The Tor project have recently announced that it is implementing a new Counter Galois Onion (CGO) relay encryption algorithm. Cryptographers Jean Paul Degabriele, Alessandro Melloni, Jean Pierre Munch and Martijn Stam has been designed CGO for years. According to the…
Handala hacking group exposes confidential access to Suvarnabhumi Airport
On November 15, 2025, the cyber group known as “Banished Kitten” or “Handala” affiliated with the Ministry of Intelligence and Security of Iran (MOIS), inadvertently disclosed confidential access to the Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok, Thailand, whilst attempting to breach the…
Upcoming changes on X platform
X’s Head of Product, Nikita Bier, has released an update on X which states that the platform is planning to roll out new features which will include displaying user details such as where X accounts were created and their country…
Predatory Sparrow Cyber group attacks Iranian Steel Companies
Guest written by: Jamshid Sani CISP A hacking group called Predatory Sparrow has claimed responsibility for a recent cyber-attack which allegedly targeted three Iranian steel companies. In social media posts on Monday 27 June 2022, the group named Khuzestan…
Moses Staff reappears
Last year a new hacking group called Moses Staff started targeting Israeli organization and gain access to victims network before stealing sensitive data and encrypting victim system. After this attack we reach out to the group to learn about…
Did Iran hack news conference for victims of Ukrainian flight 752?
reports of a hacked broadcast in response to Flight 752 verdict in Canada According to Canadian news sources a court in the province of Ontario Canada awarded $107M (US $84M) to six families of flight PS752 in response to the…
Cyberserve company the target of Black Shadow Group
Black Shadow attacks Cyberserve according to Israeli reporting, the hacker group Black Shadow announced that they had hacked into the servers of the Israeli internet company Cyberserve, turning off the servers and threatening to leak data. The Jerusalem post identifies…
Shahkar System hack could mark the beginning of more troubles
our investigations at Iran Cyber News Agency have noted a distressing trend that we would like to bring to our readers. A huge amount of hacked and leaked Iranian data is for sale on the dark web and surface web…
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…
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…