Iran’s Fars News Agency website hacked as part of anti-govt protests

By Habiba Rashid
The hackers from Black Reward Team are also claiming to have deleted nearly 250 terabytes of data from the website from its servers and computers.
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Moses Staff Hackers Publish Footage of Jerusalem Explosion

By Habiba Rashid
According to claims made by Moses Staff hackers, they hacked a major Israeli security firm to access and leak the footage.
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Iranian hackers use Log4Shell to mine crypto on federal computer system

Iranian hackers utilized a flaw in the ubiquitous open-source software library Log4j to breach a U.S. federal agency.

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SandStrike Spyware Infecting Android Devices through VPN Apps

By Waqas
The spyware is delivered through a malicious VPN app, and the preferred targets of attackers are Persian-speaking Baháʼí Faith practitioners.
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Iran’s Digital Surveillance Tools Leaked

It’s Iran’s turn to have its digital surveillance tools leaked:

According to these internal documents, SIAM is a computer system that works behind the scenes of Iranian cellular networks, providing its operators a broad menu of remote commands to alter, disrupt, and monitor how customers use their phones. The tools can slow their data connections to a crawl, break the encryption of phone calls, track the movements of individuals or large groups, and produce detailed metadata summaries of who spoke to whom, when, and where. Such a system could help the government invisibly quash the ongoing protests ­—or those of tomorrow ­—an expert who reviewed the SIAM documents told The Intercept…

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U.S. sanctions two Iranian cyber operatives over crackdowns on Mahsa Amini protests

The pair started a cyber training academy that supports Iranian intelligence in the brutal response to protests, the U.S. government said.

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Black Reward Hackers Steal Trove of Emails from Iran’s Atomic Energy Agency

By Waqas
The group claims they launched this attack to demand the release of political prisoners arrested during the countrywide protests.
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Iranian government blames ‘foreign country’ for hack-and-leak of nuclear information

In a message to CyberScoop, the hactivists that took responsibility for the attack denied the Iranian government’s claim.

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Iranian hackers that tampered with 2020 election could once again target U.S., FBI warns

The group identified as Emennet Pasargad has been using “false-flag campaigns under the guise of multiple personas,” the bureau said.

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