Iran has recently stepped up its cyberattacks and influence campaigns heading into the U.S. presidential election, including a high-profile breach and data exfiltration of the Trump campaign, data that has so far gone unpublished by U.S. news media – in contrast to the widespread publication of Democratic National Committee emails stolen by Russian hackers in 2016. Despite the significant cyber threats, U.S. cyber and national security officials say election infrastructure is secure, and the bigger threat is disinformation – a view confirmed by Cyble threat intelligence researchers in an exhaustive look at the U.S. election and related dark web activity. Handala’s most dramatic claim – that they’ve discovered a backdoor in widely used Vidisco security scanners that allowed explosives used in pager attacks in Lebanon last month to go undetected – remains unconfirmed, but Beaumont said he has confirmed that a breach of Vidisco did occur. Paul Shread has covered nearly every aspect of enterprise technology in his 20+ years in IT journalism, including award-winning articles on endpoint security and virtual data centers, and a report exposing critical security flaws in a major SIEM system. The Cyber Express is a handbook for all stakeholders of the internet that provides information security professionals with the latest news, updates and knowledge they need to combat cyber threats. Iran-linked Threat Group Handala Actively Targets Israel Handala’s most explosive allegations remain unproven, but the Iranian threat group’s activities have resulted in frequent account and website takedowns. While Handala’s claims have gone largely unnoticed and uncorroborated, the threat group’s websites, social media and Telegram accounts have been repeatedly taken down quickly, suggesting significant interest in limiting the group’s reach. Iranian threat actors have also targeted critical infrastructure in the U.S. and elsewhere, and Iran has also become a target of attacks, including an attack on the country’s banking system in mid-August.
This Cyber News was published on thecyberexpress.com. Publication date: Wed, 02 Oct 2024 05:43:05 +0000