U.S. authorities charged an Iranian national for long-running hacking campaign Pierluigi Paganini March 02, 2024 The U.S. DoJ charged Iranian national Alireza Shafie Nasab for his role in attacks targeting U.S. government and defense entities. The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) charged Iranian national Alireza Shafie Nasab (39) for multi-year hacking campaign targeting U.S. defense […]
A variant of a long-running botnet is now abusing the Log4Shell vulnerability but is going beyond internet-facing applications and is targeting all hosts in a victim’s internal network. Researchers at Akamai explain the shift in the FritzFrog botnet — which has existed since 2020 — in a report released Thursday. The botnet typically uses brute-force […]
Oct 18, 2023NewsroomCyber Espionage / Malware Government entities in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region are the target of a long-running cyber espionage campaign dubbed TetrisPhantom. “The attacker covertly spied on and harvested sensitive data from APAC government entities by exploiting a particular type of secure USB drive, protected by hardware encryption to ensure the secure storage […]