Facebook stop Iranian hackers spying on United States

Facebook announced that they have discovered gang of Iranian hackers on their platform who were targeting members of US military. The group has been named as "Tortoiseshell" and previously known for targeting information technology companies in Middle East. In this case Facebook has said that group has "used various malicious tactics to identify its targets and infect their devices with malware to enable espionage". 

This is very serious as Facebook has said that this is was a "persistent operation" part of a "cross-platform cyber espionage operation"...how does the Islamic Republic have the money for this?! People are protesting lack of water and internet blackouts across the country and yet they can spend wasteful money on people being sat on social media all day spying on people? Surely they should address their own internal problems before casting an eye overseas?

Read for yourself: https://about.fb.com/news/2021/07/taking-action-against-hackers-in-iran/ 

Iran transport hacked!

According to reports Iranian train and railway was hacked on friday and caused chaos across the country. Hackers posted messages on to departure boards saying that trains were either cancelled or delayed when in fact they were not. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack so we do not know if they are criminal or activist but they had a humor when they also posted the phone number of Ayatollah Khamenei as information services for the trainline.

In addition to this breach the transport ministry also suffered from a cyber attack on saturday when hackers disrupted portal servers. Telecommunication minister Jahromi has also warned of further attacks if vulnerabilities are not patched however how can people and organizations do this when the electricity keeps turning off! It is a flawed system!

Now we must wait to see who takes responsibility for this attack. Is it too much of a coincidence that these two attacks happened so close together or was it the same actor? I will wait and see.