Iranian Threat Actors
Recorded Future's Insikt Group says Iran's intelligence ministry has expanded its Handala hacking brand into an umbrella for hybrid operations — uniting cyber, physical and influence personas that recruit proxies, for cash, to attack, surveil and sabotage US and Israeli interests.
Nation-State Cyber Threats
Israeli firm Gambit Security says the 'Ababil of Minab' hacktivist persona that claimed the March 2026 LA Metro breach is, on its forensic evidence, a front for Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and Security. At least 700 GB was stolen, and attackers reached a rail-yard control display.
Nation-State Cyber Threats
Nimbus Manticore — the Iran-nexus APT The CyberSignal covered as Screening Serpens — has returned with a new backdoor codenamed MiniFast that Check Point Research assesses was developed with AI assistance, and a target set that now spans aviation, aerospace, defense, software, and telecom.
Nation-State Cyber Threats
Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 is tracking Screening Serpens, an Iran-nexus APT that fuses DLL sideloading with AppDomainManager hijacking to make .NET applications switch off their own security mechanisms, then deploys six new RATs across the U.S., Israel, and the UAE.
Trending
Iran-linked Handala published the names and phone numbers of 2,379 US Marines and sent direct WhatsApp threats warning of drone and missile strikes — a hybrid psychological operation attributed to Iran's MOIS.
Threat Intelligence
U.S. intelligence and cybersecurity agencies have issued a joint advisory warning of a significant escalation in Iranian-linked cyber operations targeting the nation’s critical infrastructure. The coordinated alert from CISA, the FBI, and the NSA highlights a strategic shift from "episodic" disruptions to a "sustained