The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) recently released a FLASH warning highlighting malicious cyber activity conducted by threat actors operating on behalf of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security. According to the FBI, these threat actors are using Telegram as a command-and-control infrastructure to push malware “targeting Iranian dissidents, journalists opposed to Iran, and other
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Joint Bulletin Warns Health Sector of Potential Coordinated Multi-City Attack
By Linn Foster Freedman on
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On March 20, 2025, the American Hospital Association (AHA) and the Health-ISAC issued an alert to the health care sector warning of a social media post that posed a potential threat “related to the active planning of a coordinated, multi-city terrorist attack on hospitals in the coming weeks.” The post targets “mid-tier cities with low-security…
Update on Snowflake Cyber Threat
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Posted in Cybersecurity
On June 2, 2024, cloud service provider Snowflake reported increased cyber threat activity targeting some of its customer’s accounts. Snowflake recommended that customers review unusual activity to detect and prevent unauthorized user access.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) then sent an alert on June 3, 2024, recommending that Snowflake customers “hunt for malicious activity…
New Threat: Scattered Spider International Coalition of Hackers
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Cyber adversaries in China and Russia continue to be a formidable threat to U.S. based companies. In the past, scams might be detected because a word was misspelled or the context didn’t make sense. Now, with the help of young Western hackers, cyber adversaries in Russia will be able to use insider knowledge of language…