US EditionAmazon Exposes Iran's Use of Hacked Cameras for Missile Targeting
Amazon identified Iran-linked groups compromising maritime and CCTV systems to provide live intelligence for missile targeting, highlighting a new cyber-enabled kinetic warfare method.
- Amazon published a blog post Wednesday detailing two case studies linking cyber operations to physical strikes and calling the phenomenon cyber-enabled kinetic targeting, citing Iran's missile attacks on Jerusalem on June 23 using hacked cameras for targeting.
- Iran-Linked groups Imperial Kitten and MuddyWater used digital reconnaissance, including AIS compromises in December 2021 and ship CCTV breaches in August 2022, and accessed Jerusalem CCTV streams on June 17.
- Tactics include VPN anonymization, private command-and-control servers, and system compromises, with Schmidt warning `The targeting data collected through cyber means flows directly into kinetic decision making`.
- Amazon urged defenders to treat compromised systems as targeting aids, called for expanded intelligence sharing among private sector and government, and said it worked with affected organizations to remediate threats.
- This represents a new operational model, Amazon Chief Security Officer Steve Schmidt said, involving private companies, including shipping firms, that could be targeted by nation-states with cyber and military capabilities.
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IT Security News - cybersecurity, infosecurity newsNew Amazon Threat Intelligence findings: Nation-state actors bridging cyber and kinetic warfare
The new threat landscape The line between cyber warfare and traditional kinetic operations is rapidly blurring. Recent investigations by Amazon threat intelligence teams have uncovered a new trend that they’re calling cyber-enabled kinetic targeting in which nation-state threat actors systematically use cyber operations to enable and enhance physical operations. Traditional cybersecurity frameworks often treat digital […]
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