Iran or Russia – Who Should We Worry About? The FBI and the US government’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on Thursday issued a joint warning that a Kremlin hacking crew is probing or breaking into systems belonging to the US government and aviation industry. The joint advisory states that the team, known as Energetic Bear among […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Pioneer Kitten Sells Compromised Corporate Credentials Pioneer Kitten, an Advanced Persistent Threat group backed by Iran, is compromising corporate systems and then selling those credentials to the highest bidder. Like all large organizations, they want to diversify from just ransomware and stealing credit cards. Now they have a new and apparently very lucrative revenue stream. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Iran Expands Oil & Gas Attacks to Electric as Well According to researchers, Iran linked APT33 has expanded its attack surface. Initially they were going after the global oil and gas industry but now they have added the electric grid to the mix. Right now, they say, the goal is reconnaissance – gathering information to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Albany Int’l Airport Hit By Ransomware via MSP In what is becoming an all too common story, the Managed Service Provider that supported Albany, NY’s airport, Logical Net of Schenectady, NY, was hacked and from there, the hackers were able to connect to the airports administrative network and infect it with REvil ransomware, the same […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Homeland Security’s newly named agency – the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued an emergency directive to executive branch agencies – many of which have personnel on furlough – regarding a DNS hijacking issue. The issue is not limited to agencies and every company and private individual that owns one or more Internet domains […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Starting in mid November, someone, possibly Iran, wiped many computers at a number of Saudi government agencies, including the Saudi Civil Aviation Agency . A total of 6 agencies were attacked; 4 were compromised; 2 agencies repelled the attack. The attack was made to look identical to an attack attributed to Iran in 2012 where […]
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