Open Source Research Company Claims Iranian Government Targets Iranian Citizens with Malwareware
Open source research company Check Point Research claims that what it called Iranian government entities target Iranian citizens with malware in a campaign that began in 2016. Check Points investigation revealed fake apps loaded with malware, which appeared to be…
Hackers Take Down Mahan Air Website
It can be seen from Twitter posts that website of Mahan Air was hacked by Iranian group XileResistance. The group has taken down the website on 26 April. This is the fourth time that the group has taken responsibility for…
U.S-INDICTED MABNA GROUP DIRECTED BY MINISTRY OF INTELLIGENCE
Previous, ICNA has reported on U.S. indictments and accusations of Iranian hackers and other cyber activists, and today we report also another indicitment of more Iranian cyber activists. The list of indicted people is: Gholamreza Rafatnejad Ehsan Mohammadi Abdollah Karima…
A Vaccination Called Filtering
We took this text from the Telegram Channel of Iran Security Team Official Channel (https://t.me/irsecteam_org). It presented a positive way to look at decisions that recently were taken in the country to filter Telegram and Instagram and we wanted to…
Iranian Hackers Accused of Attack on U.K. Parliament
In the last day we have seen that UK government has accused Iranian hackers of attacking the email system of U.K. Parliament. Although this has not been confirmed yet by either side, if it is proved, it shows two things:…
Iran Cyber Security Company: Registration for 1st CTF Open Now
Iran Cyber Security Group has relaunched recently as a registered and official company – Iran Cyber Security Company. Between its first activities is the holding of its first Capture the Flag (CTF) competition. You can see full details at https://iran-cyber.net/ctf/info,…
Iranian Hackers Charged By USA For Cracking/Selling Software
The USA Department of Justice –DoJ– announced indictments against two Iranians for hacking a software company –ArrowTech– in Vermont. The FBI’s Albany Cyber Squad investigated the case. Mohammed Reza Rezakhah and Mohammed Saeed Ajily were charged with five counts as follows:…
Iranian IHU EWCD Malware Domains
ICNA have already posted about the links between malware here, and the Iranian State. We have done some further research. In early March 2017 the Kaspersky report identified several domains associated with malware, including: eservic.com actdire.com securityupdated.com and chromup.com Further…
Who are the Iran Malware Team?
ICNA have found a mysterious Iranian hacking team called the “Iran Malware Team”. We have not heard of them before and would like to know more. They have a website at iranmalware.team and their site shows they appear to be…
Iranians Behind StoneDrill and NewsBeef Malware
Using simple techniques available to any security vendors looking at VirusTotal data, ICNA has found and clearly identified that the hacker xman_1365_x as being behind the StoneDrill and NewsBeef malware. Mahdi Honarvar xman_1365_x is self-identified on forums as Mahdi Honarvar…