Hezbollah Hacks Hundreds of Companies Worldwide
Lebanese Cedar, the cyber unit of Hezbollah, hacked telecom companies and internet service providers using Oracle and Atlassian server’s vulnerabilities.
ClearSky Cyber Security revealed today in a new report that APT group “Lebanese Cedar”, allegedly the cyber unit of Hezbollah, has successfully hacked the servers and databases of hundreds of companies worldwide, focusing mainly on telecommunications and ISP’s. It seems that the attacks aimed to gather intelligence and steal the company’s databases, containing sensitive data. In case of telecommunication companies, one can assume that databases containing call records and private data of clients were accessed as well.
The list of companies apparently hacked includes cloud and hosting providers in the US and UK, among with Vodafone Egypt; internet and telephony service providers in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the West Bank, and the UAE; and numerous Israeli companies. The attack group managed to hack these companies through web-based servers of Oracle and Atlassian – the provider of Jira, a popular issue-tracking software. “Apparently, these systems were hacked using known vulnerabilities of Oracle servers and open-source vulnerability scanners,” say the researchers.
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