A federal jury in New Haven, Connecticut, convicted a Nigerian national today (Wednesday, 1 May) for operating a business email compromise scheme out of multiple countries, including the United States. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Okechuckwu Valentine Osuji, 39, and his co-conspirators targeted specific individuals and businesses by masquerading as trustworthy … Read more
Israel is still routing Iran in the real world impacts of cyberattacks, even if the Islamic Republic has rallied to cause increased harm to Israeli websites and through its social media influence campaigns, former IDF Intelligence Corps Unit 8200 Col. (res.) and Team 8 Chief Ideation Officer Bobby Gilburd said. Speaking to The Jerusalem … Read more
There’s little doubt that Israel will retaliate for Iran’s unprecedented air assault over the weekend. The question is: How? For more stories from The Media Line go to themedialine.org Will Israel send its air force out to flatten as many military and civilian targets as it can, as some members of Israel’s War Cabinet … Read more
Israel National Cyber Directorate Chief Gaby Portnoy discussed what a joint Iranian and Hezbollah October 7-level cyber attack on Israel will look like at the Cybertech Conference in Tel Aviv on Tuesday. Portnoy said that Tehran and the Lebanese terror group had already tripled the pace of their attacks on the Jewish state since … Read more
“Hostile elements” attempted to take over the communication network of an El Al plane flying from Phuket to Ben-Gurion Airport on Saturday night and divert it from its destination, KAN Reshet Bet reported on Sunday. The plane reached its destination safely. This is the second time such an incident has occurred in the past … Read more
The United States conducted a cyberattack recently against an Iranian military ship in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden that had been collecting intelligence on cargo vessels, NBC News reported on Thursday, citing three US officials. The cyberattack took place a week ago as part of a government response to a drone … Read more
A hacktivist group called “Predatory Sparrow” (“Gonjeshke Darande” in Persian) claimed that it had disabled the majority of gas stations across Iran in a cyberattack on Monday. “We, Gonjeshke Darande, carried out another cyberattack today, taking out a majority of the gas pumps throughout Iran. This cyberattack comes in response to the aggression of … Read more
