INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Elliptic also confirmed in its blog post about the attack that crypto tracing shows Nobitex does in fact have links with sanctioned IRGC
operatives, Hamas, Yemen's Houthi rebels, and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group
Robinson says.Predatory Sparrow has long been one of the most aggressive cyberwarfare-focused groups in the world
The hackers, who are widely believed to have links to Israel's military or intelligence agencies, have for years targeted Iran with an
intermittent barrage of carefully planned attacks on the country's critical infrastructure
The group has targeted Iran's railways with data-destroying attacks and twice disabled payment systems at thousands of Iranian gas stations,
triggering nationwide fuel shortages
In 2022, it carried out perhaps the most physically destructive cyberattack in history, hijacking industrial control systems at the
Khouzestan steel mill to cause a massive vat of molten steel to spill onto the floor, setting the plant on fire and nearly burning staff
there alive, as shown in the group's own video of the attack posted to its YouTube account.Exactly why Predatory Sparrow has now turned its
analyst on Google's threat intelligence group and a longtime tracker of Predatory Sparrow's attacks
Almost any conflict, he notes, now includes cyberattacks from hacktivists or state-sponsored hackers
is very serious and very capable, and that's what separates them from many of the operations that we'll probably see in the coming weeks or
