Hacks

An Iranian based Cloud Infrastructure provider Arvan experienced a DDoS attack that peaks up to 5,000 Requests Per Second via Telegram MTProxy. The attack started on November 6 and lasts for 3 days. The MTProxy was used by Telegram to bypass the Iranian filtering system as the Telegram banned in Iran. Several users started using MTProxy which makes difficult for the government authorities to restrict the traffic. Attack With Telegram MTProxy Arvan spotted huge traffic received using free MTProxy hit on their Edge server and the packets are not specific to any domain name and they are directly sent to the IP address. The traffic received is completely random and has no similarities and it’s completely a new attack type and the traffic doesn’t follow any protocol patterns such as HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and so on. All the attack packets come within the Iranian IP and this huge amount of packets can disturb any server infrastructure the company says. Arvan tried multiple ways t...

Microsoft issued a serious warning about the recent cyber activities that target the Government and private sector to compromise the high profile email accounts. The attack believed to be initiated from Iran state-sponsored hacking group called Phosphorus and is linked with the Iran government to perform various cyber-attacks around the world. Microsoft has been tracking the Phosphorus ( APT 35 or Charming Kitten) threat group since 2013, and the group’s main motivation is to gain access to businesses and government agencies computer systems and steal sensitive information. During the end of March 2019, GBHackers on Security  reported  that Microsoft authorized to seize 99 illegal domains operated by the APT 35 aka Phosphorus for various illegal hacking operations.  Over the last 30 days, Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center learned that the cybercriminals make more than 2,700 attempts to identify consumer email accounts belonging to specific Microsoft custome...