IRANIAN CYBER ACTORS BEHIND ONLINE DEATH THREATS TO US ELECTION OFFICIALS: FBI

Highlights

• Website named “enemiesofthepeople” contained private information and pictures of the government and private sector officials involved in the management of US election

• According to the sources, former head of the US Cybersecurity and Infrast...

AFTER FACEBOOK, MICROSOFT MAKES SERIOUS ALLEGATIONS AGAINST IRANIAN HACKERS

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• According to the statement issued by Microsoft on Wednesday, it was successful in detecting attempts by the hacking group called Phosphorus to trick ex-government officials, academics and policy experts

• Iranian hackers targeted over 100 prominent peopl...

THREATENING EMAILS TO U.S. VOTERS LIKELY FROM IRANIAN HACKERS: FACEBOOK

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• While U.S. voters received thousands of threatening emails last week, and a video was released online that purported to show hackers breaking into a voter registration system just days before the US presidential election

• Facebook said it had suspended ...

PLANTING BACKDOORS BY HACKING VPN SERVERS

Highlights:

• 2019 was mired in security bugs discovered in enterprise VPN servers released by major companies
• Government-funded Iranian hackers played a major role in the servers’ hacking

Virtual Private Network is a method for ...