The Handala group claimed responsibility for hitting the company with a wiper attack last month.

Proofpoint researchers say the group behind the surge, TA416, had turned away from Europe for a few years.

The FBI said it was aware of hackers targeting Patel’s personal email, and that no government information was taken.

The campaign goes back to 2023 but is the subject of an alert amid conflict in the Middle East.

There’s been no visible surge, at least not yet, said DOD’s Terry Kalka and CISA’s Nick Andersen.

Sean Cairncross said the idea rather is to collaborate with the private sector in a way that helps the U.S. government take the battle to its adversaries.

It’s been difficult early on to separate signal from noise, even if the attack on the medical device maker looks like a qualified success for the attackers.

The research underscores how AI tools have matured in their cyber offensive capabilities, even as it doesn’t reveal novel or paradigm shifting uses of the technology.

The actions impaired some of IPIDEA’s proxy infrastructure, but not all of it. The effort underscores the back-and-forth struggle of taking out pieces of cybercriminals’ vast and…

Mohammad Bagher Shirinkar and Fatemeh Sedighian Kashi are accused of maintaining a close relationship planning and conducting cyberattacks of interest to the Iranian government.