Iran denies being hit by US cyberattack
5 years, 9 months ago

Iran denies being hit by US cyberattack

Al Jazeera  

No successful attack has been carried out, although US is making an effort, Iran’s telecommunications minister says. Iran says that no cyberattack against it has ever succeeded, after US media reported the US launched one last week amid a standoff between the two countries. No successful attack has been carried out by them, although they are making a lot of effort,” telecommunications minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi said on Twitter on Monday without referring to any US attack. The Washington Post said that after the drone shooting US President Donald Trump authorised US Cyber Command to carry out a retaliatory cyber attack on Iran.

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Iran’s electronic confrontation with Israel
7 months, 1 week ago

Iran’s electronic confrontation with Israel

Hindustan Times  

ZIV HOSPITAL is nestled at the bottom of Safed, the highest city in Israel, not far from the border with Syria and Lebanon. After October 7th Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, ordered cyber-operations against Israel to be expanded, he says, citing Israeli intelligence. “They know more about Israel, sometimes, than we do.” Previously it would take Iran weeks to exploit …

US says Iran behind cyber attacks on Harris, Trump election campaigns
7 months, 1 week ago

US says Iran behind cyber attacks on Harris, Trump election campaigns

Al Jazeera  

Intelligence agencies accuse Iran of trying to create discord amid concern about foreign interference in November election. The United States has accused Iran of launching cyber attacks on the presidential campaigns of Kamala Harris and Donald Trump and targeting US voters with influence operations designed to exacerbate political division. “We have observed increasingly aggressive Iranian activity during this election cycle, …

Iran is accelerating cyber activity that appears meant to influence the US election, Microsoft says
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Iran is accelerating cyber activity that appears meant to influence the US election, Microsoft says

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Iran is accelerating online activity that appears intended to influence the U.S. election, in one case targeting a presidential campaign with an email phishing attack, Microsoft said Friday. The findings in Microsoft’s newest threat intelligence report show how Iran, which has been active in recent U.S. elections, is evolving its tactics for another election that’s likely to …

Albania blames Iran for second cyberattack since July
2 years, 6 months ago

Albania blames Iran for second cyberattack since July

Al Jazeera  

Albania blames Iran for the renewed attack targeting police computer systems days after it cut diplomatic ties with Tehran. Albania has suffered a second cyberattack, the country’s interior ministry has said, days after the Balkan nation cut diplomatic ties with Tehran over alleged hacking of government digital services and websites in July. In a tweet, Prime Minister Edi Rama denounced …

US imposes new sanctions on Iran over Albanian cyberattack
2 years, 6 months ago

US imposes new sanctions on Iran over Albanian cyberattack

Al Jazeera  

US sanctions on Iran’s intelligence ministry come after Albania blamed Iran for the July incident, which Tehran has denied. Washington, DC – The Biden administration has imposed new sanctions on Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security over what it called “malign cyber activities” as the two countries struggle to find a way back into the 2015 nuclear deal. “Iran’s cyber …

Israeli cyber chief: Major attack on water systems thwarted
4 years, 10 months ago

Israeli cyber chief: Major attack on water systems thwarted

Associated Press  

JERUSALEM — Israel’s national cyber chief Thursday officially acknowledged the country had thwarted a major cyber attack last month against its water systems, an assault widely attributed to arch-enemy Iran, calling it a “synchronized and organized attack” aimed at disrupting key national infrastructure. Yigal Unna did not mention Iran directly, nor did he comment on the alleged Israeli retaliation two …

Cyberspace is the next front in Iran-U.S. conflict — and private companies may bear the brunt
5 years, 2 months ago

Cyberspace is the next front in Iran-U.S. conflict — and private companies may bear the brunt

Salon  

Iran and other nations have waged a stealth cyberwar against the United States for at least the past decade, largely targeting not the government itself but, rather, critical infrastructure companies. But even before Iranian missiles struck U.S. military bases in Iraq on Jan. 7, pro-Iranian hackers reportedly attacked at least one U.S. government-related website, along with a number of private …

One way Iran could retaliate: Cyberattacks
5 years, 2 months ago

One way Iran could retaliate: Cyberattacks

CNN  

New York CNN Business — Iran has vowed revenge after a US air strike ordered by President Donald Trump killed the country’s top general Qasem Soleimani. “Iran has a long history of politically motivated cyber attacks across the world,” Evercore analysts Ken Talanian and Kirk Materne wrote to investors in a note shared with CNN Business. “The attacks often follow …

Security experts warn of cyberattacks after US killing of top Iranian general
5 years, 2 months ago

Security experts warn of cyberattacks after US killing of top Iranian general

Firstpost  

Iran’s retaliation for the United States’ targeted killing of its top general is likely to include cyberattacks, security experts warned Friday. “There are opportunities for them to cause real disruption and destruction.” Iran has been doing a lot of probing of critical U.S. industrial systems in recent years — trying to gain access — but has limited its destructive attacks …

Iran claims it has foiled all cyber-attacks launched by the US
5 years, 9 months ago

Iran claims it has foiled all cyber-attacks launched by the US

Daily Mail  

Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi, Iran's information minister, says no successful American cyber-attack has been carried out Iran claims it has foiled all US cyber-attacks launched after it shot down a spy drone last week - though credited America for 'making a lot of effort'. Jahromi made the claim on Twitter Monday after American media reported that cyber-attacks had crippled Iranian …

US cyber forces launch strike against Iranian military computer systems
5 years, 9 months ago

US cyber forces launch strike against Iranian military computer systems

India TV News  

U.S. military cyber forces launched a strike against Iranian military computer systems on Thursday as President Donald Trump backed away from plans for a more conventional military strike in response to Iran’s downing of a U.S. surveillance drone, U.S. officials said Saturday, claims AP news. Two of the officials said the attacks, which specifically targeted Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps …

US ‘launched cyberattacks on Iran weapons’ after drone downing
5 years, 9 months ago

US ‘launched cyberattacks on Iran weapons’ after drone downing

Al Jazeera  

US officials say the attacks on Iranian military computers disabled systems that control missile and rocket launchers. The United States military launched cyberattacks against Iranian missile control systems and a spy network on Thursday after Tehran downed an American surveillance drone, US officials have said. US President Donald Trump ordered a retaliatory military attack against Iran after the drone shootdown …

US warns Iran: Do not confuse prudence with weakness
5 years, 9 months ago

US warns Iran: Do not confuse prudence with weakness

India Today  

US National Security Adviser John Bolton said Sunday that Iran should not "mistake US prudence and discretion for weakness," after the US abruptly called off military strikes against Iran in response to the shooting down of an unmanned American surveillance drone. The Trump administration has vowed to combine a "maximum pressure" campaign of economic sanctions with a buildup of American …

US struck Iranian military computers this week: Reports
5 years, 9 months ago

US struck Iranian military computers this week: Reports

India Today  

US military cyber forces launched a strike against Iranian military computer systems on Thursday as President Donald Trump backed away from plans for a more conventional military strike in response to Iran's downing of a US surveillance drone, US officials said on Saturday. Tensions have escalated between the two countries ever since the US withdrew last year from the 2015 …

US retaliated against Iranian spy group’s cyberstrike
5 years, 9 months ago

US retaliated against Iranian spy group’s cyberstrike

CNN  

CNN — US Cyber Command launched a retaliatory cyberstrike last week against an Iranian spy group, according to a US official and a former US intelligence official familiar with the matter. The US official added the online strike targeted an Iranian spy group’s computer software that was used to track the tankers that were targeted in the Gulf of Oman …

The Iran Nuclear Deal's Unraveling Raises Fears of Cyberattacks
55 years, 2 months ago

The Iran Nuclear Deal's Unraveling Raises Fears of Cyberattacks

Wired  

When the US last tightened its sanctions against Iran in 2012, then-president Barack Obama boasted that they were "virtually grinding the Iranian economy to a halt." Three years later, the Obama administration lifted many of those sanctions in exchange for Iran's promise to halt its nuclear development; Tehran has since mostly restrained its state- Now, with little more than a …

Intelligent assessment suggests Iran was behind June cyber attack on British lawmakers
7 years, 5 months ago

Intelligent assessment suggests Iran was behind June cyber attack on British lawmakers

Firstpost  

The Times said that the attack was Iran’s first significant cyber attack on a British target after the hack was initially blamed on Russia. Iran carried out a cyber attack on British lawmakers earlier this year, The Times newspaper reported on Saturday, citing an intelligence assessment of the incident. Britain’s parliament was hit by a “sustained and determined” cyber attack …

Media: If diplomacy failed, US planned cyberattack
9 years, 1 month ago

Media: If diplomacy failed, US planned cyberattack

China Daily  

The United States had a plan for an extensive cyberattack on Iran in case diplomatic attempts to curtail its nuclear program failed, The New York Times reported on Tuesday, citing a forthcoming documentary and military and intelligence officials. Code-named Nitro Zeus, the plan was aimed at crippling Iran's air defenses, communications systems and key parts of its electrical power grid, …

Iran spokeswoman says it concerned by cybersecurity report
10 years, 1 month ago

Iran spokeswoman says it concerned by cybersecurity report

Associated Press  

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran is concerned by a Russian cybersecurity firm’s report suggesting a new family of malicious programs and worms is infecting computers there and elsewhere in the world, a Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said Wednesday. Without naming the United States as the source of the malware, the report by Kaspersky Lab said one of the programs has elements in …

Obama Asked Intel Agencies to Draw Up List of Possible Cyber Targets Overseas
11 years, 9 months ago

Obama Asked Intel Agencies to Draw Up List of Possible Cyber Targets Overseas

Wired  

Four years after the U.S. and Israel allegedly launched the first known cyberweapon against Iran, President Barack Obama ordered U.S. intelligence agencies to draw up a list of overseas targets for possible offensive U.S. cyberattacks, according to a top-secret presidential directive obtained by the Guardian. The directive not only discusses attacking foreign targets, but authorizes the use of offensive cyber …

Do cyberwars really keep us from fighting?[1]- Chinadaily.com.cn
12 years, 6 months ago

Do cyberwars really keep us from fighting?[1]- Chinadaily.com.cn

China Daily  

As if there aren't enough things to fight about, there's now the Internet. This against the worldwide background of state Related: God save our gracious Kim Kardashian First off, the US and Israel developed what is being called the world's first cyberweapon, Stuxnet, a clever computer worm that is thought to have been injected into the computers of Iran's nuclear …

Obama 'Sped Up Wave Of Cyberattacks Against Iran,' Says 'NYT'
12 years, 9 months ago

Obama 'Sped Up Wave Of Cyberattacks Against Iran,' Says 'NYT'

NPR  

Obama 'Sped Up Wave Of Cyberattacks Against Iran,' Says 'NYT' This morning's talker: "From his first months in office, President Obama secretly ordered increasingly sophisticated attacks on the computer systems that run Iran's main nuclear enrichment facilities, significantly expanding America's first sustained use of cyberweapons, according to participants in the program," The New York Times reports. The Guardian speculates that …

Massive cyber attack on Iran came from U.S., report says
12 years, 9 months ago

Massive cyber attack on Iran came from U.S., report says

LA Times  

It reads like a riveting sci-fi novel, but it’s stunningly real: A super-sophisticated malicious computer virus burrowed its way into Iran’s nuclear facilities and took down several parts of the operation. In his first months in office, President Obama covertly ordered sophisticated attacks on the computers that ran Iran’s nuclear facilities, upping U.S. use of cyber weaponry in a sustained …

Iranian computers hit by new cyberweapon circulating Middle East
12 years, 10 months ago

Iranian computers hit by new cyberweapon circulating Middle East

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The virus, dubbed "Flame," is unprecedented both in terms …

Iran Says, It's Not Planning Attacks On US Soil – India TV
13 years, 1 month ago

Iran Says, It's Not Planning Attacks On US Soil – India TV

India TV News  

Tehran, Feb 4: Iran on Friday rejected allegations by the US director of national intelligence James Clapper that the Islamic republic was more willing now to carry out attacks on American soil. "Iran's willingness to sponsor future attacks in the United States or against our interests abroad probably will be shaped by Tehran's evaluation of the costs it bears for …

'Cyber attacks are an act of war': Pentagon to issue new rules against hackers'
13 years, 9 months ago

'Cyber attacks are an act of war': Pentagon to issue new rules against hackers'

Daily Mail  

'Cyber attacks are an act of war': Pentagon to announce new rules of engagement against state America may retaliate with military force against countries that sabotage its computers, according to the Pentagon’s first ever strategy on how to fight escalating cyber attacks. Defence: The Pentagon will reclassify cyber attacks as an aggressive act if it causes the equivalent loss of …

Iran’s nuclear program and a new era of cyber war
14 years, 2 months ago

Iran’s nuclear program and a new era of cyber war

LA Times  

Just a few months ago, U.S. and Israeli officials were warning that Iran was a year away from having the capability to rapidly build a nuclear weapon. Identified in June, Stuxnet is being called the most sophisticated cyber weapon ever unleashed, because of the insidious way in which it is believed to have secretly targeted specific equipment used in Iran’s …

Under cyber-attack, says Iran
14 years, 6 months ago

Under cyber-attack, says Iran

The Hindu  

Iran on Sunday said its Bushehr atomic power plant was safe but confirmed that a cyber-attack had been launched against many of its industrial computers. “The main systems of the Bushehr nuclear power plant have not been damaged,” Iran's state-run Islamic Republic News Agency quoted Mahmoud Jahfari, the plant's project manager as saying. “Investigations show that some private software of …

Cyber attack ‘targeted Iran’
14 years, 6 months ago

Cyber attack ‘targeted Iran’

Al Jazeera  

Malicious software discovered on systems around world could have been designed to target Bushehr reactor, experts say. Experts have suggested that the Bushehr nuclear reactor could have been a target of the virus The discovery of so-called malicious software – malware – on systems in Iran and elsewhere across the world has prompted speculation of an attempted cyber attack on …

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