Local media in India report that cyber attacks from Iran are on the rise. Local media reports indicate that schools and banks as well as government departments such as the police force and defense agencies have been severely targeted. This new wave of cyber attacks has been reported mainly in Kerala and New Delhi as well as in areas such as Bihar and West Bengal.
The Ministry of Home Affairs in India has said that experts are being pressured to accept the requests as a result of the ransomware attack because they are afraid of data being put on dark web if they do not pay. This type of attack is called Lock and Leak attacks and is very popular with cyber criminals in the Iranian regime.
This follows a public warning that Google issued in 2021 at the CharmingKitten AKA APT35, and I wrote a blog about it here. In that warning, Google said CharmingKitten was using phishing tools to collect data from innocent victims.
India has always been accustomed to cyber threats from Pakistan and China, but now Iran has to intervene again illegally in another country! When will it stop ??? 😤😤
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