Collaborate Disseminate
The incident comes as Iranian-backed Houthi fighters step up attacks on commercial shipping vessels in the Red Sea.
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Predatory Sparrow, which has been linked to an attack on an Iranian steel facility last year, reemerged after a long hiatus Monday.
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Many of the 24 cyber-enabled Iranian influence operations Microsoft detected in 2022 were intended to further Iran’s Mideast political agenda.
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The July attacks involved multiple groups responsible for different aspects of the operation against Albania, researchers said.
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The hackers linked to the Iranian government claimed to have attacked Albania for hosting an opposition group conference.
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The Jan. 27 hack of Iranian state broadcaster IRIB — which ran a message of support for opposition leaders and called for the assassination of Iran’s supreme leader — came with previously unidentified wiper malware, according to research that suggests the incident was more destructive than initially assumed. Researchers with Check Point, a Tel Aviv-based cybersecurity company, published the findings Friday based on what it said were files and other forensic evidence connected to the hack. Iranian officials acknowledged the attack at the time, saying that “disruptions” also occurred on another television channel and two radio stations, and called the hack “complex.” The breach occurred the day before Iran began its multi-day celebration of the 1979 revolution. “We could not find any evidence that these tools were used previously, or attribute them to a specific threat actor,” the researchers wrote. The files found and analyzed by Check Point include the […]
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