'Dumb mistake' shows Iran behind threatening email to voters | US Cyber Command and Microsoft launch campaign against Russian interference | Australia pushes back against app encryption
'Dumb mistake' shows Iran behind threatening email to voters | US Cyber Command and Microsoft launch campaign against Russian interference | Australia pushes back against app encryption
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Follow us on Twitter. The Daily Cyber Digest focuses on the topics we work on, including cyber, critical technologies & strategic issues like foreign interference. Government analysts and private sector investigators were able to rapidly attribute to Iranian hackers a wave of thousands of threatening emails aimed at U.S. voters because of mistakes made in a video attached to some of the messages, according to four people familiar with the matter. Those failures provided a rare opportunity for the U.S. government to identify and publicly announce blame for a malicious cyber operation in a matter of days, something that usually requires months of technical analysis and supporting intelligence.
'Dumb mistake' shows Iran behind threatening email to voters | US Cyber Command and Microsoft launch campaign against Russian interference | Australia pushes back against app encryption
'Dumb mistake' shows Iran behind threatening…
'Dumb mistake' shows Iran behind threatening email to voters | US Cyber Command and Microsoft launch campaign against Russian interference | Australia pushes back against app encryption
Follow us on Twitter. The Daily Cyber Digest focuses on the topics we work on, including cyber, critical technologies & strategic issues like foreign interference. Government analysts and private sector investigators were able to rapidly attribute to Iranian hackers a wave of thousands of threatening emails aimed at U.S. voters because of mistakes made in a video attached to some of the messages, according to four people familiar with the matter. Those failures provided a rare opportunity for the U.S. government to identify and publicly announce blame for a malicious cyber operation in a matter of days, something that usually requires months of technical analysis and supporting intelligence.