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fromWIRED
5 days ago

How 'Handala' Became the Face of Iran's Hacker Counterattacks

Iran's Handala hacker group conducted a major cyberattack on medical technology firm Stryker, disabling tens of thousands of computers as retaliation for US-Israel airstrikes, marking the beginning of Iranian state-sponsored cyber warfare disguised as hacktivism.
fromNextgov.com
2 weeks ago

Strikes on Iran will test US cyber strategy abroad, and defenses at home

This is a bad time for Washington's cyber agency to be operating with limited staff. That funding lapse comes after Trump-administration moves shrank CISA's workforce by about one-third last year and degraded public-private collaboration mechanisms. This limits the ability of the federal government to provide timely cyber threat information to the private sector.
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