Iranian Hackers Posed as Israelis in Targeted LinkedIn Phishing Attack

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The Israeli security agency Shin Bet claims to have thwarted a LinkedIn phishing scam carried out by Iranian hackers.
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Israeli Oil Refinery Giant BAZAN Hit by Fresh Wave of Cyber Attacks

By Habiba Rashid
The culprits behind the cyber attacks call themselves the Cyber Avengers, with an apparent connection from Iran.
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Anonymous Sudan’s DDoS Attacks Disrupt Network at Israeli BAZAN Group

By Waqas
The DDoS attacks occurred on January 17, 2023, and NetBlocks, a global internet monitoring platform, has confirmed the network disruption.
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Israel Faces Fresh Wave of Cyberattacks Targeting Critical Infrastructure

By Waqas
Authorities believe that these cyberattacks may be part of OpIsrael, organized by pro-Palestinian hackers.
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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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Hackers Target Israeli Rocket Alert App Users with Spyware

By Waqas
If you’ve downloaded a rocket alert app from a third-party source, ensure it’s spyware-free and delete it from your device.
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Hamas Hackers Posing as Women to Con Snr Israeli Officials into Installing Malware

By Waqas
A Middle Eastern hacking group supposedly connected to Hamas uses malware to steal sensitive data from Windows and…
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Palestinian hacking group evolving with new malware, researchers say

A Palestinian-aligned hacking group has targeted Middle Eastern governments, foreign policy think tanks and a state-affiliated airline with a new malware implant as part of “highly targeted intelligence collection campaigns,” according to research published Tuesday. The findings, from researchers with cybersecurity firm Proofpoint, unpack the latest activities of an established and well-documented Arabic-speaking hacking group known as MoleRATs and its deployment of a new intelligence-gathering trojan they call “NimbleMamba.” The malware serves an intelligence-gathering trojan and, according to the researchers, is likely designed gain initial access to a target system. The group has gone after targets worldwide over the years, but Tuesday’s research examines campaigns against an unnamed Middle East government, foreign policy think tanks and a state-affiliated airline starting in August 2021 and continuing into January 2022. The operators behind MoleRATs — also known as TA402 — are “evolving their techniques and creating these very nicely done, specific and […]

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Researchers detect fresh wave of hacking attacks on Palestinian targets

A hacking group is targeting Palestinian people and organizations with a wave of years-old malware, according to research published Wednesday. The findings, from Cisco’s Talos threat intelligence division, unpack a surge of attacks starting around October 2021 targeting Palestinians using malware known as Micropsia. The attacks are part of a broader campaign dating back to 2017 connected to a group known as Arid Viper, an Arabic hacking group possibly associated with Hamas that first emerged in 2015. Also known as Desert Falcons or APT-C-23, — “APT” stands for “advanced persistent threat,” a kind of group often associated with nation-state hackers —Kaspersky researchers in 2015 named it the “first exclusively Arabic APT group.” Kaspersky estimated at the time that it numbered 30 or so attackers who employed homemade malware, social engineering and other techniques against targets all over the world. The group’s main motivation is espionage and information theft, Talos noted in […]

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