FBI, Homeland Security detail how Iranian hackers stole US voter data

Posted on 31/10/2020 by Engadget

US officials are shedding more light on how Iran-linked hackers stole voter info to send intimidating emails to Democrat voters. The FBI and Homeland Security’s CISA have issued an advisory (via Bleeping Computer) explaining the campaign, which ran f...

Feds blame Russia, Iran for election misinformation and threatening emails

Posted on 22/10/2020 by Engadget

At a press conference on Wednesday evening, Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe told reporters that two foreign actors, Iran and Russia, have been identified as taking actions to interfere in the US elections. Ratcliffe claimed the two h...

Twitter suspends 1,600 accounts linked to state disinformation networks

Posted on 08/10/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Twitter has permanently suspended another 1,589 state-linked accounts that violated its platform manipulation policies. It says they’re connected to state information operations carried out by Iran, Saudi Arabia, Cuba and Thailand. Twitter has added...

Twitter removed 130 Iran-linked accounts during last night’s debate

Posted on 01/10/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Twitter has removed 130 accounts that appeared to originate from Iran and were attempting to disrupt public conversation around the 2020 US Presidential debate. The social network’s Support account has revealed the deletion on the platform. It also p...

Iranian hackers’ Android malware spies on dissidents by stealing 2FA codes

Posted on 20/09/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

It’s no secret that some countries have spied on their citizens through innocuous-looking apps, but one effort is more extensive than usual. Check Point Research has discovered (via ZDNet) that Rampant Kitten, an Iranian hacker group that has targete...

Google says state-backed hackers are targeting Trump and Biden campaigns

Posted on 04/06/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Google’s security researchers say state-backed hackers from Iran and China have targeted the Trump and Biden presidential campaigns, respectively. The state-backed actors sent phishing scam attempts to the personal email accounts of campaign staff. A...

Senator Ted Cruz asks DOJ to investigate Twitter over Iran sanctions

Posted on 30/05/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Twitter is facing yet more scrutiny over its approach to politicians, albeit for different reasons. Axios (via The Verge) has learned that Senator Ted Cruz sent letters to the Justice and Treasury Departments ‘urging’ them to investigate Twitter for...

Huawei CFO is one crucial step closer to being extradited to the US

Posted on 27/05/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

The US has edged one step closer to securing the extradition of Huawei’s CFO over alleged Iran sanction violations. The Supreme Court of British Columbia has ruled (via TechCrunch) that Meng Wanzhou’s case met the standard for “double criminality” in...

China arrested former Huawei staff for talking about Iran deal online

Posted on 26/04/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Huawei flatly denies being under control of the Chinese government, but there’s little doubt that China is eager to defend its technological superstar — at least, with a little prodding. The New York Times has learned that Chinese police arrested fiv...

Iran’s coronavirus ‘diagnosis’ app looks more like a surveillance tool

Posted on 14/03/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Iran is known to have one of the more serious coronavirus infection rates at the moment, but the country's government appears to be exploiting that for the sake of political control. Vice has learned that a government-endorsed app, AC19, poses as a...

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