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Microsoft has found that three threat groups ““ Strontium, Zirconium and Phosphorus - are conducting cyber attacks against individuals and organizations involved in the upcoming U.S. presidential elections in November.

A team of Google security professionals has found that advanced persistent threat groups working for Iran and China targeted the election campaigns of President Donald Trump and political rival Joe Biden.

Mark Testoni, CEO of SAP National Security Services and a four-time Wash100 award winner, said potential Iran-backed cyber attacks against the U.S. will be based on motivations, FOX Business reported Wednesday.

Tom Kellermann, head of cybersecurity strategy at VMware, told Bloomberg in a video interview posted Saturday he believes Iran will respond to a U.S. airstrike through cyber warfare.

Microsoft has identified a threat group that attempted to identify and target email accounts belonging to a U.S. presidential campaign, journalists and government officials.

A new FireEye report says a network of fake social media accounts impersonated U.S. political candidates and used legitimate online and print media outlets in the U.S. and Israel to promote content in support of Iranian interests. The company said Tuesday most of the bogus accounts in the network were created between April 2018 and March 2019 and used profile pictures taken from different sources online.

Microsoft now controls 99 websites previously used by Iran-linked hackers to steal information from private companies and government agencies in the U.S., according to recently released court documents. 

Stan Black, chief security and information officer at Citrix, has said the company was informed by the FBI on Wednesday that international cyber hackers may have accessed and downloaded documents through a tactic that uses weak passwords called password spraying. Black wrote in a blog post published Friday that Citrix has launched a forensic investigation, sought the help of a cybersecurity firm and initiated actions to protect its internal network in response to the incident.
 

Raytheon CEO Thomas Kennedy told CNBC in an interview posted Wednesday he believes that despite trade disputes, foreign countries will continue to procure defense platforms from the U.S. in order to safeguard their citizens' freedom and protect their sovereignty. He noted about European countries' efforts to increase their defense spending …

A Frost & Sullivan report has found the Defense Department‘s budget request for fiscal year 2018 represents a 9 percent rise, or approximately $52 billion, over the FY 2017 budget plan with significant increases in operations and maintenance as well as research, development, testing and evaluation accounts. The market research firm said Wednesday it …

Industry officials told lawmakers at a House Homeland Security Committee's cybersecurity panel hearing Thursday that that U.S. government is hesitant to facilitate cyber threat data sharing with stakeholders in the private sector, Nextgov reported Thursday. Scott Montgomery, a vice president at Intel Security, told House committee members that U.S. government investigators' …

A new report by IHS Markit says defense budgets in the Middle East will start to increase in 2017 driven by the region's plans to ramp up acquisition of new military platforms and capabilities in support of regional operations. IHS Jane's predicts a 2 to 3 percent rise in Middle East defense …

FireEye has uncovered evidence of a hacking organization that has been operating since 2009 and has primarily targeted both Iranian dissidents and U.S. defense businesses. Dubbed “Ajax Security Team,” the hacker group intensified the level of its cyber activity from defacing several websites to conducting espionage operations, FireEye said Tuesday. …

On the heels of the late 2013 release of his second book, Treasury's War: The Unleashing of a New Era of Financial Warfare, Juan Zarate caught up with ExecutiveBiz to discuss his and the Treasury Department's work in the years after 9/11 to promote U.S. national security interests through sophisticated …