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Notorious Iranian Hackers Have Been Targeting the Space Industry With a New Backdoor

post, augustus 28, 2024juli 3, 2025

The Iranian government-backed hacking group known as APT 33 has been active for more than 10 years, conducting aggressive espionage operations against a diverse array of public and private sector victims around the world, including critical infrastructure targets. And while the group is particularly known for strategic but technically simple attacks like “password spraying,” it has…

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Iranian hackers target WhatsApp accounts of Biden and Trump administration associates, Meta says

post, augustus 24, 2024augustus 26, 2024

An Iranian hacker group targeted the WhatsApp accounts of individuals associated with the administrations of President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, Meta announced Friday. “This malicious activity originated in Iran and attempted to target individuals in Israel, Palestine, Iran, the United States and the UK,” the social media giant said in…

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Iran Dupes US Military Contractors, Gov’t Agencies in Cyber Campaign

post, april 24, 2024april 26, 2024

The US Departments of Treasury and State are among those compromised in the elaborate campaign, which lasted from 2016 to 2021 according to a US Justice Department indictment unsealed this week. Various defense contractors with high-level security clearances, a New York-based accounting firm, and a New York-based hospitality company were…

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Iran-linked UNC1549 hackers target middle east aerospace & defense sectors

post, februari 28, 2024april 26, 2024

An Iran-nexus threat actor known as UNC1549 has been attributed with medium confidence to a new set of attacks targeting aerospace, aviation, and defense industries in the Middle East, including Israel and the U.A.E. Other targets of the cyber espionage activity likely include Turkey, India, and Albania, Google-owned Mandiant said in a…

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The Real Story of Stuxnet

post, februari 26, 2013juni 23, 2025

Update 13 June 2025: The attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities are the latest in a two-decade campaign by the Israeli military and intelligence establishments to disrupt and hinder Iran’s efforts to build atomic weapons. On Thursday, 12 June, prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel announced that Israeli warplanes had struck “Iran’s main enrichment facility…

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