IBM Discloses Iranian Hacking: Was Watson on the Job?
July 30, 2020
We spotted an interesting nugget of information in “Iran-Linked Hackers Mistakenly Leak Videos of Their Operations in Action: Report.”
The story reveals that:
IBM’s X-Force security team acquired about five hours of video footage of hacking operations by APT35, a hacking group linked to the Iranian government…
Where did the video originate? The answer: Iran.
The IBM researchers got a hold of the footage due to “a misconfiguration of security settings on a virtual private cloud server they’d observed in previous APT35 activity,” the report said, adding that the files were uploaded to the exposed server over a few days in May, just as IBM was monitoring the machine. The APT35 hackers recorded their operations to demonstrate to junior team members how to handle hacked accounts, according to the report. The videos show the hackers how to download the contents of compromised Gmail and Yahoo Mail accounts.
The report does not mention Watson. Interesting.
Stephen E Arnold, July 29, 2020
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