nir Posted August 27, 2018 Share Posted August 27, 2018 Reportedly Iranian hackers have been targeting universities and educational institutions among 14 nations in an attempt to steal intellectual property. The SecureWorks Counter Threat Unit (CTU) announced on Friday that this attempt may be likely to work as it is as it is performed by Cobalt Dickens which is one of the most advanced persistent threat (APT) actors. Iranian Government is Connected to Cobal Dickens Cobalt Dickens was connected to the Iranian government which was discovered by the researchers. In March the group was indicted for conducting a series of attacks on universities and organisations on behalf of Islamic Republic of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The Institute of Mabna has been working with Cobalt Dickens who allegedly stole data from 76 universities over 21 nations and also 47 US and foreign private sectors companies which also include US Department of Labor and the UN. More than 14 countries were affected… In their latest series of attacks, over 76 universities in 14 nations have been affected including institutions in the UK, US, Canada, China and Switzerland. There is a total of 16 domains that have been used by the bad actors to host more than 300 spoofed websites which include university logins pages and online libraries. The hackers have sent many spoofed links through phishing emails, if the victim falls for the messages and enters their login information they are redirected to the real service while the data is obtained by the malicious script. “Numerous spoofed domains referenced the targeted universities’ online library systems, indicating the threat actors’ intent to gain access to these resources,” CTU says. Most of the domains were bought between May and August 2018, the attacks are continuing as further registrations are being made. Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
straycat19 Posted August 27, 2018 Share Posted August 27, 2018 My alma mater has a huge library collection of comic books, which should keep the Iranians busy for years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted August 27, 2018 Share Posted August 27, 2018 36 minutes ago, straycat19 said: My alma mater has a huge library collection of comic books, which should keep the Iranians busy for years. Lol exactly Universities dont have nothing worth stealing no how , most of there studies are made public , but its kind of like the Russian hackers there no real proof they was from Iran. They allegedly done it and just like the alleged Russian hackers they put indictments out on them were there know there is no chance of ever catching them, they put out indictments on the alleged Iranian hackers that live in Iran like that's going stop them, when for all we know they may not be from Iran, there is no proof they are. https://www.newsweek.com/alleged-iranian-hackers-target-us-universities-steal-intellectual-property-1088964 https://www.axios.com/iranian-hackers-target-schools-phishing-doj-3d66422a-4af5-480c-b496-a67f6b642594.html Stupid stuff that waste tax payers money, if they really wanted to catch them they would wait tell they visited some country were they could be extradited instead posting it all over the news saying hey if you go to the wrong place you will be extradited. I know US intelligence is not this stupid witch makes it sound like propaganda . US launches propaganda war to destabilize Iranian leaders https://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20180722/world/us-launches-propaganda-war-to-destabilise-iranian-leaders.685075 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ha91 Posted August 31, 2018 Share Posted August 31, 2018 What could the hackers, if from an Iranian origin, even possibly achieve (by hacking universities)? @steven36@straycat19 Can you help answer me? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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