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Jason Brodsky

@jasonmbrodsky
20 posts
2024-12-25
The timing of the lifting of restrictions on WhatsApp and Google Play is interesting here. Comes as authorities in #Iran worry about domestic unrest amid power blackouts, currency woes, and rumors of fuel subsidy cuts. https://www.reuters.com/...
2024-12-25 View on X
Bloomberg

Iran's Supreme Council of Cyberspace approves lifting its ban on “certain widely used foreign platforms”, naming WhatsApp and Google Play as the first two apps

- Allowing WhatsApp and Google Play may placate opponents  — Major social networking sites have been blocked for years

2024-09-28
Today, @USTreasury designated seven individuals as part of a coordinated U.S. government response to #Iran's operations that sought to influence or interfere in the 2024 and 2020 presidential elections. https://home.treasury.gov/...
2024-09-28 View on X
Associated Press

The US DOJ charges three hackers employed by Iran's Revolutionary Guard for allegedly hacking Trump's presidential campaign and disseminating stolen info

Eric Tucker / Associated Press :

2024-04-24
An indictment was unsealed today charging #Iran nationals Hossein Harooni, Reza Kazemifar, Komeil Baradaran Salmani, & Alireza Shafie Nasab for involvement in an #IRGCterrorists cyber-enabled campaign to compromise U.S. government & private entities. https://www.justice.gov/...
2024-04-24 View on X
BleepingComputer

The US OFAC sanctions four Iranian nationals over cyberattacks on the US government, defense contractors, and private companies, and the DOJ unseals indictments

The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned four Iranian nationals for their involvement …

#BREAKING: @USTreasury has sanctioned two companies and four individuals involved in malicious cyber activity on behalf of #IRGCterrorists Cyber Electronic Command in #Iran. Additionally @TheJusticeDept is unsealing an indictment. https://home.treasury.gov/...
2024-04-24 View on X
BleepingComputer

The US OFAC sanctions four Iranian nationals over cyberattacks on the US government, defense contractors, and private companies, and the DOJ unseals indictments

The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned four Iranian nationals for their involvement …

2024-02-03
#BREAKING: two #Iran sanctions tranches today. ⁦@USTreasury⁩ has sanctioned six officials in the #IRGCterrorists Cyber-Electronic Command (IRGC-CEC) https://home.treasury.gov/...
2024-02-03 View on X
CyberScoop

The US Treasury sanctions six Iranian government officials for their role in targeting devices at a Pennsylvania water utility in November 2023

The Iranian attack targeted a device manufactured by an Israeli company.  —  The U.S. Treasury Department on Friday announced sanctions …

2023-10-11
Reading this WSJ piece about how #Hamas, PIJ, and #Hezbollah may have received financing through cryptocurrency for the attack on #Israel, it's worth noting Binance processed #Iran transactions with a value of $8 billion since 2018. https://www.wsj.com/...
2023-10-11 View on X
CNN

Letter: Thierry Breton warns Elon Musk that X could face penalties under the DSA for hosting “illegal content and disinformation” about the Israel-Hamas war

European officials warned X on Tuesday that the company formerly known as Twitter appears to have been hosting misinformation …

Reading this WSJ piece about how #Hamas, PIJ, and #Hezbollah may have received financing through cryptocurrency for the attack on #Israel, it's worth noting Binance processed #Iran transactions with a value of $8 billion since 2018. https://www.wsj.com/...
2023-10-11 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Research: Palestinian Islamic Jihad-linked crypto wallets received ~$93M from August 2021 to June 2023; Hamas-linked ones received ~$41M over a similar period

whether those funds are in the form of fiat currency, gold, crypto or whatever. 1/3 @billhughesdc : “Hamas stopped publishing its donation addresses to protect donors' anonymity af...

2023-03-22
“Notably, some of these state actors establish credibility and trust over time by masking themselves as anti-regime voices and ardent supporters of the protest movement, or by building relationships with targets.” https://www.wired.com/...
2023-03-22 View on X
Wired

Researchers: Iran's cyber army, or Cyberi, ramped up spear-phishing and adopted new tactics aiming to sow distrust among citizens as political unrest continues

Arian Khameneh / Wired :

2023-02-05
The U.S. should absolutely sanction Tiandy and other companies in #China over its technology sales to #Iran's regime under EO 13553. Equally as important, the U.S. should aggressively enforce sanctions against Chinese companies buying oil from Tehran. https://t.co/...
2023-02-05 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: the US considers sanctions on Tiandy, Uniview, and other Chinese surveillance tech makers over sales to Iran in 2022 as protests swept the country

Beijing's exports of video recorders to Iran more than doubled in 2022 as protests swept the country

2023-01-09
Meta's Oversight Board on Monday overturned the company's decision to remove a Facebook post that used the slogan “death to Khamenei” to criticize #Iran's supreme leader, saying it did not violate a rule barring violent threats. #MahsaAmini https://www.reuters.com/...
2023-01-09 View on X
Reuters

Meta's Oversight Board overturns Facebook's decision to remove a post that said “death to Khamenei”, referencing the Iranian leader, after violent protests

Katie Paul / Reuters :

2022-10-24
TIME has confirmed the arrival of the 1st Starlink receivers inside #Iran. Cassette tapes of Khomeini were smuggled into Iran in the lead-up to the 1979 revolution. Fast forward to 2022, Starlink receivers are being smuggled into the country. #MahsaAmini https://time.com/...
2022-10-24 View on X
TIME

Iranian activists smuggle Starlink receivers into the country for a backup internet, citing “no Starlink donation” from SpaceX nor US government participation

2022-09-07
BREAKING: #Albania's prime minister announces the severing of diplomatic relations with #Iran after a cyberattack. This happened around the time of the MEK conference, which had to be cancelled as well due to a terror threat. https://twitter.com/...
2022-09-07 View on X
Associated Press

Albania cuts diplomatic ties with Iran and expels embassy staff over a major cyberattack in July 2022, which shut down numerous government digital services

Albania cut diplomatic ties with Iran and expelled the country's embassy staff over a major cyberattack nearly two months ago …

2021-11-29
“Because the ministry's computer servers contain such sensitive data, the system operates unconnected to the internet, leading to suspicions among Iranian officials that Israel may have had inside help.” 2/3
2021-11-29 View on X
New York Times

Recent cyberattacks on Iran's fuel distribution system and an Israeli LGBTQ dating site show that Iran-Israel cyberwar is impacting civilians on a large scale

Iranians couldn't buy gas.  Israelis found their intimate dating details posted online.  The Iran-Israel shadow war is now hitting ordinary citizens.

Some interesting NYT details on recent cyberattack on #Iran's fuel system: “officials were alarmed that hackers had also gained control of the [oil] ministry's fuel storage tanks and may have had access to data on international oil sales.” #OOTT 1/3 https://www.nytimes.com/...
2021-11-29 View on X
New York Times

Recent cyberattacks on Iran's fuel distribution system and an Israeli LGBTQ dating site show that Iran-Israel cyberwar is impacting civilians on a large scale

Iranians couldn't buy gas.  Israelis found their intimate dating details posted online.  The Iran-Israel shadow war is now hitting ordinary citizens.

2021-11-28
“Because the ministry's computer servers contain such sensitive data, the system operates unconnected to the internet, leading to suspicions among Iranian officials that Israel may have had inside help.” 2/3
2021-11-28 View on X
New York Times

Recent cyberattacks on Iran's fuel distribution system and an Israeli LGBTQ dating site show that Iran-Israel cyberwar is impacting civilians on a large scale

Iranians couldn't buy gas.  Israelis found their intimate dating details posted online.  The Iran-Israel shadow war is now hitting ordinary citizens. Tweets: @alexgibneyfilm , @ebk...

Some interesting NYT details on recent cyberattack on #Iran's fuel system: “officials were alarmed that hackers had also gained control of the [oil] ministry's fuel storage tanks and may have had access to data on international oil sales.” #OOTT 1/3 https://www.nytimes.com/...
2021-11-28 View on X
New York Times

Recent cyberattacks on Iran's fuel distribution system and an Israeli LGBTQ dating site show that Iran-Israel cyberwar is impacting civilians on a large scale

Iranians couldn't buy gas.  Israelis found their intimate dating details posted online.  The Iran-Israel shadow war is now hitting ordinary citizens. Tweets: @alexgibneyfilm , @ebk...

2021-06-23
“A U.S. Justice Department spokesperson had no immediate comment. Two U.S. government sources indicated that the Justice Department was preparing an announcement on this issue.” #Iran https://www.reuters.com/...
2021-06-23 View on X
Reuters

DOJ says it has seized 36 Iranian media websites and sites for groups affiliated with Iran that are linked to Iranian disinformation for violating US sanctions

The U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday it seized 36 Iranian-linked websites, many of them associated with either disinformation activities …

2019-10-06
Interesting blog post by @Microsoft. It discloses “significant cyber activity by a threat group we call Phosphorous, which we believe originates from #Iran.” It has targeted accounts associated w/ a 2020 U.S. presidential candidate. https://blogs.microsoft.com/ ...
2019-10-06 View on X
New York Times

Sources: Trump's re-election campaign is the presidential campaign that Microsoft said was targeted by Iranian hackers

SAN FRANCISCO — Iranian hackers targeted President Trump's re-election campaign, two people with knowledge of the attacks said on Friday, in a sign of how cyberattacks …

Interesting blog post by @Microsoft. It discloses “significant cyber activity by a threat group we call Phosphorous, which we believe originates from #Iran.” It has targeted accounts associated w/ a 2020 U.S. presidential candidate. https://blogs.microsoft.com/ ...
2019-10-06 View on X
Microsoft on the Issues

Microsoft: Iran-linked group, dubbed Phosphorus, attempted to hack 241 accounts belonging to a 2020 presidential campaign and others between Aug. and Sept.

Tom Burt / Microsoft on the Issues :

2019-10-05
Interesting blog post by @Microsoft. It discloses “significant cyber activity by a threat group we call Phosphorous, which we believe originates from #Iran.” It has targeted accounts associated w/ a 2020 U.S. presidential candidate. https://blogs.microsoft.com/ ...
2019-10-05 View on X
Microsoft on the Issues

Microsoft: Iran-linked group, dubbed Phosphorus, attempted to hack 241 accounts belonging to a 2020 presidential campaign and others between Aug. and Sept.

Today we're sharing that we've recently seen significant cyber activity by a threat group we call Phosphorus, which we believe originates …