Smoke rises as Israel targets the notorious Evin Prison in north of Tehran, Iran, on June 23, 2025. Evin prison has been known as the place where Iran imprisons mostly political activists, dissidents and journalists. Media reports say that administrative building and the hospital of Evin prison have been damaged, and a number of families of inmates and prison staff have been killed and wounded. (Photo by Nikan / Middle East Images via AFP)
SecurityScorecard and the Middle East Institute said in separate reports this week that Iranian hacker operations during the 12-day conflict exhibited clear strategic intent.
The National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Data from sensors that detect threats in critical infrastructure networks at the laboratory is sitting unanalyzed after a government contract expired this weekend. (Photo: Jason Laurea/LLNL)
WASHINGTON, DC – JANUARY 28: U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem delivers remarks to staff at the Department of Homeland Security headquarters on January 28, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Manuel Balce Ceneta-Pool/Getty Images)
As the state responded to a pro-Iranian attack, officials tell CyberScoop that it avoided reaching out to the federal agency, partly because it has been “politicized and…
The U.S. is stepping into a new cyber era, and it comes not a moment too soon. With the Trump administration’s sweeping $1 billion cyber initiative in…
A worker walks inside of an uranium conversion facility in Iran on March 30, 2005. Stuxnet, a piece of malware reportedly developed by Israel and the U.S. to destroy equipment in the facilities like the one pictured, will be the subject of a forthcoming Congressional hearing. (Photo by Getty Images)
The House Homeland Committee will revisit the malware to use the knowledge from the spy effort to explore the domestic threats facing the U.S. in 2025.
U.S. President Donald Trump, joined by Republican lawmakers, signs the One, Big Beautiful Bill Act into law during an Independence Day military family picnic on the South Lawn of the White House on July 4, 2025. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images)
A $90 million crypto theft from Nobitex marks the second cyberattack on Iran’s financial systems in as many days. Predatory Sparrow claimed responsibility for both attacks.
A Bank Sepah branch in Tehran, Iran in 2021. Iran-focused media outlets report Bank Sepah branches are closed after a cyberattack. (Photo by ATTA KENARE/AFP via Getty Images)
The attack introduces a clear cyber element with immediate consequences for the country’s critical infrastructure amid a growing conflict between Israel and Iran.
Cyber defenders say AI technologies are quickly evolving to help stop sophisticated threat groups, including Chinese adversaries, from embedding themselves inside target organizations.
Trend Micro researchers discovered and reported the eight-year-old defect to Microsoft six months ago. The company hasn’t made any commitments to patch or remediate the issue.
