Australia PROMISE to retaliate to any cyber attack from Iran! 😲

Australia WILL RETALIATE to any cyber attack from Iran! 

Earlier this week it was reported that defense minister of Australia Peter Dutton stated that any cyber attack that originates from Iranian regime will be responded to by Australia "by an equal measure" 😮

Peter Dutton also says that officials in Australia are monitoring malicious cyber activity on a daily basis. And even though Australia has not been targeted for a month Peter Dutton is concerned that Australia could become collateral damage in a cyber war between other countries. He give example of instances were Microsoft is hacked like they were last week by Lapsus$. Hacks like this also will affect Australian government and innocent Australian people too. He also says that Australia would anticipate hacks from regimes like Iran ahead of time. 

Microsoft was hacked by Lapsus$ last week

Australia works very closely with the United States and the UK and have just opened up a new cyber security center in Australia capital of Canberra to monitor malicious cyber threats. 

Cyber war is changing especially with Russian invasion of Ukraine. And cyber attacks can cause so much damage such as loss of money or business collapse and at the worst injury or loss of life to people.😢

Iran has been publicly named by Australia since 2017 as a country that has launched malicious cyber activities against Australia and Australia will continue to publicly attribute Iran and expose attacks made by them to deter the threat. Iranian regime needs to change its ways!! 😤 

Who is DEV-0343??

It has been reported by the Microsoft Intelligence center that malicious password spray attacks which first occurred in July have been attributed to Iranian cybercriminals codenamed DEV-0343, according to the Microsoft Information center.

The term password spray usually refers to a brutal attack in which a cybercriminal uses the same password on multiple accounts, with the goal of locking the account with repeated attempts to gain unauthorized access.

DEV-0343 seeks to target more than 250 Office 365 tenants associated with US, Israeli and EU defense companies, as well as ports and shipping companies in the Persian Gulf. However less than 20 tenants have been successfully hacked.

DEV-0343 

These attacks were simulated by DEV-0343 using an emulated Firefox browser and rotated through IPs hosted on a TOR proxy network. This attempt to remain anonymous did not work, because after analyzing the lifestyle and geographical targeting of known Iranian cybercriminals, it became clear that this was the work of this vicious and intrusive regime. At 7:30 a.m. and 8:30 p.m. Iranian time the group targets hundreds of accounts at a time, praying for just one account for weak cyber security measures.

Friends please protect yourself from this criminal group 🙏. Enable 2FA authentication on all your accounts, block all incoming traffic from anonymous services, and make sure all of your Microsoft Exchange access policies are up to date.

When will this regime stop interfering with the rest of the world while the Iranian people are starving? While Internet blackouts occur regularly? How can the Iranian government continue to claim its lack of money while supporting criminal acts like this? 😡

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TrueCrypt Is Now Insecure!

On one of the official webpages of the popular TrueCrypt encryption program it is written that development has ended suddenly and warns users of the decade-old tool that it isn't safe to use the tool.

"WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues," text in red at the top of TrueCrypt page on SourceForge states. The page continues: "This page exists only to help migrate existing data encrypted by TrueCrypt. The development of TrueCrypt was ended in 5/2014 after Microsoft terminated support of Windows XP. Windows 8/7/Vista and later offer integrated support for encrypted disks and virtual disk images. Such integrated support is also available on other platforms. You should migrate any data encrypted by TrueCrypt to encrypted disks or virtual disk images supported on your platform."