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Cataclysmic cyberattacks involving public tools have been launched by the Twelve hacktivist operation against Russia since its emergence in April 2023, according to The Hacker News. After obtaining initial access via local or domain account exploitation, Twelve proceeds to leverag...

Bapco, the national oil company of the Persian Gulf island nation of Bahrain, was reportedly targeted in a Dec. 29 disk wiper attack that officials believe originated from Iran-backed hackers. Iran is historically associated with past disk wiper campaigns against energy companies, most notably t...

Reputed Iranian threat actor APT33 has been employing more than a dozen secret botnets to infiltrate and spy on the networks of various Middle Eastern, U.S. and Asian organizations, and are even setting up their own VPN networks to conceal their operations, according to researchers. Trend Micro ...

The U.S. Cyber Command warned that a threat group was exploiting a vulnerability in Outlook in an effort to attack government agencies and uploaded samples that one security researcher said are linked to APT33 and Shamoon2. “USCYBERCOM has discovered active malicious use of CVE-2017-11774 and re...

The cyberespionage group Elfin, aka APT33, has launched a heavily targeted campaign against multiple organization in Saudi Arabia and the United States. Researchers said the most recent targets include major corporations and despite 42 percent of observed attacks focusing heavily on Saudi Arabi...

The malware used to disrupt the global operations of Italian energy contractor Saipem S.p.A. earlier this week was none other than Shamoon, a disk wiper that's been used in two prior attacks against Saudi interests. Saipem identified Shamoon as the culprit in a Dec. 12 news release that upd...

Amid reports of Russian hackers influencing elections, Chinese hackers pilfering state secrets, and North Korea launching ransomware attacks and attacking cryptocurrency exchanges, it would be easy to underestimate Iran's potential as a cyberthreat to the U.S.On one hand, most analyses describe the ...

The University of Colorado, Colorado SpringsFor the last two years, UCCS has played a pivotal role in developing and expanding the National Cybersecurity Center (NCC) in Colorado.The national nonprofit organization, housed on university-owned property, includes three key components: a Cyber Research...

Researchers have demonstrated a way for remote attackers to exfiltrate data from and send malicious commands to air-gapped networks, using infrared surveillance cameras that ironically are supposed to make the organizations using them more secure.Dubbed aIR-Jumper, the air-gap covert channel attack ...

The first half of 2017 has not exactly been a ride in the park for cybersecurity professionals. Some of the highlight events so far this year have been the Shadow Brokers regularly dumping NSA hacking tools for public consumption, cybercriminals then using these shiny new toys to run amok producing ...