Iran continues to be a significant threat actor, and it is now supplementing its traditional cyberattacks with a new playbook, leveraging cyber-enabled influence operations (IO) to achieve its geopolitical aims.

Microsoft has detected these…

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On May 2, 2023, Microsoft announced that Iran had been "rapidly accelerating" cyberattacks since mid-2022. The tech giant attributed 24 c…

With two weeks until Election Day 2024, the Microsoft Threat Analysis Center (MTAC) observes sustained influence efforts by Russia, Iran, and China aimed at undermining U.S. democratic processes. Since our last two reports, the U.S. governm…

An Iranian hacking group, identified by Microsoft as "Cotton Sandstorm" and linked to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, is conducting reconnaissance on US election-related websites and media outlets as the upcoming election nears, M…

Iranian hackers are gearing up for a potentially major influence operation ahead of the U.S. elections, running parallel to increased election interference efforts from China and Russia, Microsoft said in a report released Wednesday.

The fi…

Oct 23 (Reuters) - An Iranian hacking group is actively scouting U.S. election-related websites and American media outlets as Election Day nears, with activity suggesting preparations for more "direct influence operations," according to a M…

As the US presidential election approaches, an Iranian hacking group known as Cotton Sandstorm is actively targeting election-related websites and media outlets in the United States, according to a recent report by Microsoft. Linked to Iran…

Russian, Iranian, and Chinese trolls are all ramping up their US election disinformation efforts ahead of November 5, but – aside from undermining faith in the democratic process and confidence in the election result – with very different o…

The FBI and other agencies accused Iranian cyber actors of targeting the 2024 Summer Olympics, including an attempt to take over display boards to denounce Israel.

The U.S. Department of Treasury and Israel National Cyber Directorate joined…

U.S. and Israeli cybersecurity agencies have published a new advisory attributing an Iranian cyber group to targeting the 2024 Summer Olympics and compromising a French commercial dynamic display provider to show messages denouncing Israel…

The US and Israel have warned that the Iranian state-sponsored threat actor Cotton Sandstorm is deploying new tradecraft to target networks, including leveraging generative AI tools.

The joint advisory highlighted how the group, also known …

An Iranian cyber-operations group, Emennet Pasargad --- also known as Cotton Sandstorm --- has broadened its attacks, expanding its targets beyond Israel and the United States and targeting new IT assets, such as IP cameras.

In an advisory …

America’s adversaries did not significantly affect the results of the 2024 U.S. elections — but not for lack of trying. Russia, Iran, and China waged aggressive influence operations targeting America’s political system, but America proved r…