Amazon CISO: Iranian hacking crews ‘on high alert’ since Israel attack
Iran’s state-sponsored cyber operatives and hacktivists have all increased their activities since the military conflict with Israel erupted last week – but not necessarily in the way that Amazon chief information security officer CJ Moses expected.
Like most world powers and wannabes, Iran has a substantive crew of government-supported hackers who do all of the usual cyber dirty work for the state: espionage, meddling in elections , spear phishing, stealing data and credentials, deploying ransomware, and in some cases breaking into water utilities and other critical infrastructure.
“Each of the different threat actors has a different goal,” Moses told The Register, adding that Amazon has learned something interesting about the Iranians: “As opposed to what we saw in Russia when they invaded Ukraine, we haven’t seen a change in their goals.”
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