Cobalt Dickens threat group looks to be similar to indicted hackers
A mass credential-stealing campaign by hackers linked to the Iranian government and targeting 76 universities around the world was discovered this month by Secureworks, an Atlanta-based cybersecurity company owned by Dell. The campaign involved 16 domains, 300 spoofed websites and fake login pages, 76 targeted universities and 14 countries including the United States, Canada, United Kingdom and Japan, the company announced. “Universities are attractive targets for threat actors interested in obtaining intellectual property,” Secureworks’ researchers said on Friday. “In addition to being more difficult to secure than heavily regulated finance or healthcare organizations, universities are known to develop cutting-edge research and can attract global researchers and students.” The campaign is ongoing with the most recent domain having been registered on Aug. 19. Carried out by hackers that Secureworks researchers dub Cobalt Dickens, this campaign used some of the same infrastructure as the Iranian hackers indicted by the United States in […]
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