WASHINGTON – A notorious group of hackers tied to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has waged a covert campaign targeting university professors and other experts based in the U.K. and the U.S. in an attempt to steal their sensitive information, according to research by the cybersecurity firm Proofpoint.    The group, known as TA453 and Charming Kitten, has been masquerading as British scholars at the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)…

Image: Sobhan Farajvan/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images Hacking. Disinformation. Surveillance. CYBER is Motherboard’s podcast and reporting on the dark underbelly of the internet. Iranian hackers with links to the country’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps impersonated two academics in an attempt to hack journalists, think tank analysts, and other academics, according to a new report. In early 2021, the hackers—dubbed inside the industry as Charming Kitten or TA453—sent emails to targets pretending to be Dr. Hanns Bjoern…

The various threat intelligence stories in this iteration of the Anomali Cyber Watch discuss the following topics: APT, Data Theft, Malicious Apps, Middle East, Phishing, Targeted Campaigns, and Vulnerabilities. The IOCs related to these stories are attached to Anomali Cyber Watch and can be used to check your logs for potential malicious activity. Figure 1 – IOC Summary Charts. These charts summarize the IOCs attached to this magazine and provide a glimpse of the threats…

Many security executives have fundamental familiarity with the MITRE ATT&CK framework, although most perceive it within a narrow set of use cases specific to deeply-technical cyber threat intelligence (CTI) analysts. The truth though, is that when integrated into overall security operations, it can produce profound security and risk benefits. What is MITRE ATT&CK? MITRE ATT&CK serves as a global knowledge base for understanding threats across their entire lifecycle. The framework’s differentiator is its focus on…

Just as security leaders and pros are firming up their policies and strategies to secure hybrid work for the foreseeable future—they get hit with an all-out assault of ransomware attacks. Image: iStockphoto/nicescene After a year of pandemic-related disruption and an uptick in ransomware and serious cyberattacks of all kinds—just as security leaders and professionals are firming up their policies and strategies to secure hybrid work for the foreseeable future —they get hit with an all-out…