IBM researchers stunned by hacker training videos they found on a server used by a prolific Iranian hacker crew.
Allison Wikoff, senior cyber threat analyst at IBM, said that the military officials had been notified of the hacks. When Wikoff uncovered the leak in May with fellow IBM researcher Richard Emerson, she was astonished that training videos from an Iranian hacker crew had been spilled and at the speed at which the hackers could siphon off data from a Google account. She also found evidence Yahoo accounts were targeted.
“It was alarming just how quickly they were able to navigate through these different flavours of account,” Wikoff told. “They were just so fast at it… And it just, to me, it [indicated] they've been doing this a really long time and they're really good at it.” Wikhoff said the leaky server had been used to host websites previously used by the Charming Kitten crew and so was directly linked to the Iranian group. She said it appears to be a large, well-resourced unit of the Iranian government or an entity working in the interests of the regime. “This is a pretty large operation. And the fact that they're creating training videos, sort of speaks to the volume of people that are probably affiliated with it.
By getting access to their Google accounts, the hackers could acquire a “plethora of information” on targeted individuals, including Chrome logins, location data, personal pictures and much more, Wikoff added. This could help Iran map out military bases or even gain information about sensitive government operations if the target has been lax with their operational security. Or it could be used for future, more personalized targeting of the same official.
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