‘CanisterWorm’ Springs Wiper Attack Targeting Iran

Multiple high-impact cyber incidents and trends reported: a financially motivated group (dubbed “CanisterWorm”) is deploying a worm that spreads via poorly secured cloud services and wipes systems configured for Iran time zone or Farsi; Iran-linked actors claim a destructive wiper attack against medtech firm Stryker. Law enforcement in the U.S., Canada and Germany disrupted four massive IoT botnets (Aisuru, Kimwolf, JackSkid and Mossad) that had compromised millions of devices and were powering record DDoS campaigns; Kimwolf remains active and has been used to disrupt the I2P anonymity network