Researchers Uncover 6-Year Cyber Espionage Campaign Targeting Iranian Dissidents

Capping off a busy week of charges and sanctions against Iranian hackers, a new research offers insight into what’s a six-year-long ongoing surveillance campaign targeting Iranian expats and dissidents with an intention to pilfer sensitive information. The threat actor, suspected to be of Iranian origin, is said to have orchestrated the campaign with at least two…

Cisco focuses on application security with Portshift acquisition

Cisco has made plans to acquire Israeli startup Portshift in an effort to bolster its security solutions for a reported, but not confirmed, price of $100 million. Through the use of Kubernetes, an open-source container-orchestration system for computer automation, Portshift enables DevOps, security and operations teams to continuously secure the entire containerized applications lifecycle. In…

Critical Flaws Discovered in Popular Industrial Remote Access Systems

Cybersecurity researchers have found critical security flaws in two popular industrial remote access systems that can be exploited to ban access to industrial production floors, hack into company networks, tamper with data, and even steal sensitive business secrets. The flaws, discovered by Tel Aviv-based OTORIO, were identified in B&R Automation’s SiteManager and GateManager, and MB Connect Line’s…