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Black Shadow Leaked Hundreds of Thousands Data--Israel Internet Association

 

A group of Iranian hackers called Black Shadow has leaked the personal credentials of hundreds of thousands of Israeli medical patients’ appointment details and members of аn LGBTQ site in a ransomware attack on Tuesday night. 

According to the local reports, the information that has been released in public includes names, addresses, personal information, appointments and medical test results of more than 290,000 patients of a specific medical center and vaccine status, the info on blood tests, treatments, CT scans, colonoscopies, and ultrasounds. The group has also released the full database from LGBTQ dating service Atraf, including their names, locations, and in some cases, their HIV status too. 

Also, reports reveal that the Black Shadow group has stolen the data after targeting Israeli hoster CyberServe, which has denied paying a $1m ransom. 

“Describing this as one of the most serious attacks on privacy that Israel has ever seen," the Head of the Israel Internet Association Yoram Hacohen told the Times of Israel that "Israeli citizens are experiencing cyber terrorism. This is terrorism in every sense and the focus now must be on minimizing the damage and suppressing the distribution of the information as much as possible." 

Times of Israel reported that several other customers of CyberServe have been victimized on the same line, including transportation companies, museums, and tourism organizations. The information was reportedly uploaded to a Telegram channel. 

The Head of the Israel Internet Association Yoram Hacohen has blamed Telegram for the surge in cyber crimes activities in the nation. The chief said that “Telegram has failed to establish boundaries and is partially responsible for this as the social media platform does not limit the spread of private information”. 

The patients' data was released a few hours after the same cybercriminal group leaked the whole user database of an LGBTQ dating website in the country. The reports suggest that the data has been leaked as a threat to the dating app website as the owners of the app had refused to pay a ransom.
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US Cyber Command launched a digital strike against an Iranian spy group





The United States’s Cyber Command launched a retaliatory digital strike against an Iranian spy group that is believed to be behind a series of attack on commercial ships, according to two former intelligence officials.

The Iranian spy group has ties with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, a division of Iran’s Armed Force group. For the past several years, they have been digitally targeting the military and civilian ships that are passing through the economically important Strait of Hormuz. 

The exact details of the retaliatory strike are unknown. However, the strike against the group is said to have taken place on the same day when Iran shot down $180million unmanned US surveillance drone. 

A Pentagon spokesperson only told Yahoo News that 'as a matter of policy and for operational security, we do not discuss cyberspace operations, intelligence or planning.'


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Iranian Hackers Come Worryingly close To Israel’s Missile Warning System





Israel's military scrambles to protect alerts from being undermined as Iranian hackers came 'worryingly close' to their missile warning system. In the wake of observing them to recognize their intent, the military blocked them after distinguishing the hackers in 2017 and when it turned out to be clear what their objective was.

Brigadier General Noam Shaar, outgoing head of the cyber defense division in the army's Cyber Defense Directorate, who has been associated with building up Israel's cyber defense operations for as far back as 20 years, says that,“We dealt with them and built another barrier and another monitoring system to make sure we could stop them if they tried again. We can’t wait until Iranian cyber becomes a major, major threat,”

While the U.S. - based cyber security firm FireEye Inc. in the wake of following attackers for a while, said in January that Iran could be behind a rush of hacks on government and communications infrastructure over the Middle East, North Africa, Europe and North America, Iran’s Information and Communications Technology Ministry and Telecommunications Ministry had no remarks on its supposed exercises.

In any case Iran has blamed Israel for cyber-attacks, as well, most recently in November when it said it rebuffed an Israeli cyber-attack on its telecommunications infrastructure.

Rhea Siers, a former senior official at the U.S. National Security Office, even says that, “The Iranians have been eager ‘to make themselves known’ in the cyber domain and have certainly done so, while it is certainly true that Israel is a key Iranian cyber target, that is different than assessing Iran’s strength across the entire cyber domain.”

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Hezbollah Cyber Army hacked into Former Iranian President websites


A Hacker group called as Hezbollah Cyber Army break into the websites belong to Association of Combatant Clerics( a reformist organization under the leadership of former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami) and the Baran Foundation( another organization linked to Khatami).

Hackers modified both websites such that visitors redirected to the webstie of Hezbollah Cyber Army. Hackers warns that it will not allow people to damage Iran’s Islamic values by spreading “childish” ideas online.

Iran’s Cyber Army has been named in 2009 among the most powerful cyber forces in the world and they’ve been highly active in the country’s political matters, especially when they felt that the Islamic Republic’s enemies were planning to harm the integrity of their belief system.

“Iranian security and military forces treat the cyber-presence of opposition groups as a direct threat to the Islamic Republic regime,” Radio Zamaneh wrote.
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