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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…

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…

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…

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….

Iranian malware attacks CORRUPT KITTEN, DOMESTIC KITTEN and ZOOPARK – what we have learnt

We have already published an article detailing the shocking intrusion of the Iranian government into the lives of the citizens they have sworn to protect. It was found that they actively use malware to violate the privacy of innocent Iranians…

CORRUPT KITTEN Exposed

Iran Cyber News Agency was previously able to reveal the discovery of new malware targeting Iranian citizens. In the interests of protecting innocent citizens from further attacks we can reveal more of the technical specifications of the malware and how…

Malware Made for Iranians: New Malware ‘Corrupt Kitten’ Used to Spy on Iranians

In this time when so many enemies are waging soft war against innocent Iranians using many excuses, Iranians expect the government of the Islamic Republic to protect them against this. An investigation by Iranian Cyber News Agency in collaboration with…

Iranian Hackers Accused of Attacking US

The US has continued its campaign against Iran hacker and cyber activists by indicting two more people allegedly invovled in creating SamSam ransomware. Faramarz Shahi Savandi and Mohammad Mehdi Shah Mansouri were accused of using ransomware to attack US governmetn…