Israel’s Cyber Chief Voices Concerns Over Potential Escalation of Iranian Cyber Attacks

Penka Hristovska Published on: November 8, 2023 Gaby Portnoy, the head of the Israel National Cyber Directorate, has expressed concerns about Iran potentially launching more serious attacks on Israel’s infrastructure…

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EleKtra-Leak Campaign Uses AWS Cloud Keys Found on Public GitHub Repositories to Run Cryptomining Operation

Image: WhataWin New research from Palo Alto Networks’s Unit 42 exposes an active attack campaign in which a threat actor hunts for Amazon IAM credentials in real time in GitHub…

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Could Australia’s Cybersecurity Strategy Benefit From More Data Science Rigour?

Australia’s Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil recently revealed details of Australia’s Cyber Security Strategy 2023–2030. Designed to protect Australia in a fast-moving threat environment, the strategy would rely on building…

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Microsoft Exposes Octo Tempest, One of the Most Dangerous Financial Threat Actors to Date

A new report from Microsoft Incident Response and Microsoft Threat Intelligence teams exposed the activities and constant evolution of a financially oriented threat actor named Octo Tempest, who deploys advanced…

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