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HACKERS FROM IRAN TARGET GLOBAL GIANTS VIA INDIAN IT FIRMS

Premium  The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) and Microsoft Digital
Security Unit (DSU) pointed out that Iranian threat actors started compromising
companies based in India in mid-August. (Photo: iStock) 1 min read . Updated: 19
Nov 2021, 10:09 PM IST Prasid Banerjee

 * Microsoft said it has issued over 1,600 notifications to more than 40 IT
   companies globally in response to Iranian targeting in 2021. This is a
   significant increase from the 48 notifications the company issued in 2020



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NEW DELHI: Microsoft has warned that Iranian hackers are increasingly targeting
software services companies in India in a bid to access the networks of their
customers.



The US technology company said it had observed “relatively little history" of
Iranian hackers attacking Indian targets before July 2021, but it has grown
since. “As India and other nations rise as major IT services hubs, more nation
state actors follow the supply chain to target these providers’ public and
private sector customers around the world matching nation-state interests,"
Microsoft said in a blog post.

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Microsoft said it has sent more than 1,600 notifications to more than 40 IT
companies globally in response to the actions by Iranian hackers this year. This
is a sharp increase from the 48 notifications the company issued in 2020. “The
focus of several Iranian threat groups on the IT sector particularly spiked in
the last six months—roughly 10-13% of our notifications were related to Iranian
threat activity in the last six months, compared with 2.5% in the six months
prior," Microsoft said.



While the Iranian hackers are also companies based in Israel and United Arab
Emirates (UAE), Microsoft noted that “most of the targeting" is focused on
software services companies based in India.

The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) and Microsoft Digital Security
Unit (DSU) pointed out that Iranian threat actors started compromising companies
based in India in mid-August. The Windows-maker issued 1,788 nation state
notifications (NSNs) across Iranian actors to its enterprise customers in India,
“roughly 80%" of whom are IT companies. It had issued only 10 such notifications
in the last three years.

Microsoft surmised that this sudden targeting of Indian IT firms was being done
to gain indirect access to subsidiaries and clients they have outside the
country. “Such attacks are particularly lucrative and valuable to attackers
because they give access to a large number of potential targets. For this
reason, supply chain attacks are expected to be on an upward trend into 2022,"
security company Kaspersky said in a report earlier this week.

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