Miscellaneous
We’re back with the second episode of our “Big Four” series focused onNorth Korea, Iran, China, and Russia. We honed in on Iran for thisone, and to help explore their cyber capabilities, we invited SarahHawley, Principal Analyst for Mandiant Threat Intelligence, and LeeFoster, Senior Manager of Information Operations Analysis.Sarah kicked off the episode by providing an overview of Iran’s pastoffensive cyber activity and how these capabilities have developedover the years. Lee shared how they have also grown their usage andwillingness to use information operations (IO) and how his teamapproaches attribution and analysis of this disinformation activity.We then touched on drivers of Iranian cyber threat and their apparentincreasing willingness to target democratic processes. Sarah alsodiscussed Iran’s destructive activity going after industrial targetsin the oil and gas sectors through password spraying and spearphishing operations.As always, we closed out the episode with thoughts about what Sarahand Lee think we might see from Iran’s cyber operations in the comingyears. Listen to hear their predictions and stay tuned for ourupcoming episodes on China and Russia.Listen to the podcast now, check out the “Big Four” episode on NorthKorea if you haven’t already, and then head over to our Eye onSecurity page for even more episodes.