

Craig Chamberlain
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Former Elastic, QRadar. I do detection. I'll find you, it's what I do. It's all I do. Tweets my own @[email protected] | @randomuserid.bsky.social




I've already had questions from a FinServ client about Iran replicating Operation Ababil (2012-2013 DDoS targeting FS orgs). My assessment is that is not likely to happen. Iran has limited capacity for cyberattacks and given the current situation, they have MUCH higher priorities for cyberattacks. Realistically, they are FAR more likely to use their limited cyber resources for intelligence collection instead of destructive attacks that would have limited impacts. They are likely unable to perform another Shamoon-style attack either, since that requires significant prepositioning. In any case, it's unlikely they have enough prepositioning in US orgs (especially FS) to create that type of impact. One other note, is that FS orgs are in a much different position today to deal with any DDoS attacks that Iranian-linked threat actors might attempt. Operation Ababil was a wakeup call for the whole industry and they've definitely become more resilient to DDoS in the last decade+ since.

Amid the Israeli and US strikes on Iran, a wave of cyberattacks have also targeted the country, the semi-official Fars news agency reports. Fars says that several major Iranian news agencies were targeted and "experienced severe disruptions in their operations," and that some widely used mobile applications were also experiencing disruptions.


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