Iran’s Lyceum Hackers Target Telecoms, ISPs in Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Africa
A state-sponsored threat actor allegedly affiliated with Iran has been linked to a series of targeted attacks aimed at internet service providers (ISPs) and telecommunication operators in Israel, Morocco, Tunisia, and Saudi Arabia, as well as a ministry of foreign affairs (MFA) in Africa.
Nate Warfield, CTO at Prevailion, discusses the dangers of focusing on zero-day security vulnerabilities, and how security teams are being distracted from the day-to-day work that prevents most breaches.
Karim Hijazi, founder and CEO of Texas-based cyberintelligence firm Prevailion, says that damaging malware Russia would activate is already in Canada.
Russia’s failures on the battlefield boost the pressure to “cause as much damage as possible” in the cyber domain, a former NSA hacker told Insider.