Iranian IT-company Supply-Chain Attack in Bahrain
description
Iranian nation-state hackers compromised a Bahrain-based IT company that works with not further specified cleints of the Bahrain government who were their ultimate target. Besides that they compromised a not more precisely defined government-owned organiazation in the Middle East that works with the defense and transportation sector.
sources attribution
Not available
sources politicalization
Not available
start
01.09.2021
end
01.10.2021
source incident detection disclosure
Incident disclosed by IT-security company
receiver
label:
Not available
category:
Unknown
Corporate Targets (corporate targets only coded if the respective company is not part of the critical infrastructure definition)
country:
Bahrain
label:
Not available
category:
Unknown
Corporate Targets (corporate targets only coded if the respective company is not part of the critical infrastructure definition)
country:
Middle East (region)
inclusion criteria
Attack conducted by nation state (generic “state-attribution” or direct attribution towards specific state-entities, e.g., intelligence agencies)
articles
added to database
15.08.2022
articles
Not available
attribution date
2021
attribution basis
IT-security community attributes attacker
attributing country
Not available
attributing actors
Not available
attribution type
Technical report (e.g., by IT-companies, Citizen Lab, EFF)
initiators
label:
DEV-0056
category:
State
countries:
Iran, Islamic Republic of
legal attribution references
Not available
Incident/Operation Type
Data theft
Hijacking with Misuse
data theft
For private / commercial targets: non-sensitive information (incident scores 1 point in intensity)
disruption
none
hijacking
Hijacking, system misuse, e.g., through data theft and / or disruption (incident scores 2 points in intensity)
Physical Effects (temporal)
none
Physical Effects (spatial)
none
unweighted cyber intensity
3
Target / Effect Multiplier
Moderate - high political importance
weighted cyber intensity
Low / moderate intensity - 3
MITRE: Initial Access
Not available
MITRE: Impact
Not available
Common Vulnerability Scoring System: User Interaction
Not available
Zero Day
No
cyber conflict issue
International power
offline conflict issue
Unknown
offline conflict intensity
Unknown
casualties
No casualties as a direct result of the cyber incident
political response
Not available
state responsibility indicator
Not available
il breach indicator
Not available
response indicator
Not available
Evidence for Sanctions Indicator
Not available
legal response
Not available
impact indicator
Not available
