Mabna Institute is an Iran-based organization alleged by US authorities to have operated a large, coordinated credential-theft and data-exfiltration campaign since at least 2013. Its principal targets were universities and research institutions, but the victim set also included private companies, government agencies, and international organizations. US prosecutors allege that the activity supported the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), other Iranian government customers, and Iranian un
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A pro-Israel group of hackers on 18 June drained more than $90 million from Iran’s largest cryptocurrency exchange but may have lost all of the proceeds from the heist in the process, according to several crypto tracking firms.
Coins like Bitcoin, Ethereum and Doge were sniped from digital wallets on Iranian exchange Nobitex, which has been linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The IRGC is a branch of Iran’s military that has been labeled a terrorist organization by the US, United Ki
An elite team of Iranian state-sponsored hackers successfully infiltrated hundreds of thousands of employee accounts at US companies and government agencies, according to the Feds, as part of a multiyear cyber espionage campaign aimed at stealing military secrets.
The US Departments of Treasury and State are among those compromised in the elaborate campaign, which lasted from 2016 to 2021 according to a US Justice Department indictment unsealed this week. Various defense contractors with high-l
The nasty Iranian nation-state APT group known as Charming Kitten is actively targeting multiple victims in the US, Europe, the Middle East, and India with a new malware named BellaCiao, adding to its ever-expanding list of custom tools. Discovered by Bitdefender Labs, BellaCiao is a "Personalized dropper" that is capable of delivering other malware payloads onto a victim machine based on commands received from an actor-controlled server. The attackers appear to customize their attacks for eac
