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Iran cyberespionage campaign's targets (Source: Trend Micro) Hackers with suspected ties to Iran are continuing to wage a cyberespionage campaign against government agencies, academia and tourism organizations in the Middle East and nearby, according to a report by Trend Micro. The spear-phishing campaign, dubbed Earth Vetala, which is designed to steal data, exploits remote admin tools such as ScreenConnect and Remote Utilities that allow system administrators to remotely manage their enterprise systems, Trend Micro says. “We believe, with moderate confidence, that this newly identified a...

Ep 1270 | 2.16.21 France’s ANSII warns of a longrunning Sandworm campaign. DPRK tried to steal COVID-19 vaccine data. Supermicro is exasperated. Static Kitten phishes in the UAE Subscribe France finds Sandworm’s trail in a software supply chain. Microsoft is impressed by the amount of effort Russian intelligence services put into the SolarWinds campaign. Pyongyang is reported to have attempted to steal COVID-19 vaccine information. Supermicro reiterates objections to Bloomberg's report on alleged hardware supply chain compromises. Static Kitten is phishing in the UAE. Updates on the Flori...

KUWAIT CITY, Feb 13, (Agencies): Anomali, a cyber security company headquartered in the United States of America (USA), has conducted a research revealing that Iranian hackers are eyeing government institutions in Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in a possible cyber espionage campaign. A re

A first phase patch for the critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-1472, was issued in August 2020. "The first phase of the patch was intended to address the vulnerability on two fronts: blocking both Windows-based domain members and non-Windows PCs that have been configured to disable signing/encryption as well as making changes to the Netlogon protocol for clients that cannot use the required signing/encryption," says Satnam Narang, staff research engineer at the security firm Tenable. The second patch completes the patching process for those who did not earlier implement enforcement ...

Iranian Hackers Utilize ScreenConnect to Spy On UAE, Kuwait Government Agencies UAE and Kuwait government agencies are targets of a new cyberespionage campaign potentially carried out by Iranian threat actors, according to new research. Attributing the operation to be the work of Static Kitten (aka MERCURY or MuddyWater), Anomali said the "objective of this activity is to install a remote management tool called ScreenConnect (acquired by ConnectWise 2015) with unique launch parameters that have custom properties," with malware samples and URLs masquerading as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs ...