Microsoft: Irans Cyberattacks on Israel Exaggerated & Fabricated

Despite claims to the contrary, Iranian cyberattackers have been less strategic and more opportunistic over the last month as the Israel-Hamas war continues.

Pro-Iranian hacktivists have made false claims about the strength of cyberattacks made against Israel in the current conflict with Hamas. Meanwhile, the allegations that
Iranian state-sponsored attackers
conducted pre-planned cyberattacks timed with Hamas Oct. 7 terror attack on Israel are false.
Thats according to
Microsoft
, which said that any claims of ransomware attacks by the groups were almost certainly fabricated. For instance, Iranian actors claimed they successfully compromised cameras at a specific Israeli military installation, when it was revealed to be an untargeted compromise of connected webcams that have nothing to do with military targets.
In reality, the compromised cameras were located at scattered sites outside any one defined region, according to Microsofts report. This suggests that despite Iran actors strategic claims, this camera example was ultimately a case of adversaries continuing to opportunistically discover and compromise vulnerable connected devices and try to reframe this routine work as more impactful in the context of the current conflict.
Microsofts Threat Intelligence Center also said the success of network attacks have been exaggerated and amplified via a well-integrated deployment of
information operations
.
As for the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) or Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) coordinating any attacks to align with the physical attack on Oct. 7, Microsoft says it never happened. The earliest advanced persistent threat (APT) activity consisted of two separate destructive attacks targeting infrastructure in Israel conducted on Oct. 18. Microsoft didnt disclose details on the attacks.
That said, Microsoft Threat Intelligence anticipates that the longer the conflict goes on, the more likely it is Iranian operators will move from a reactive posture to more proactive activities.

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