‘CanisterWorm’ Springs Wiper Attack Targeting Iran

Multiple high-impact cyber incidents and trends were reported: a financially motivated group unleashed “CanisterWorm,” a worm-like wiper that spreads via poorly secured cloud services and specifically targets systems using Iran time zone or Farsi settings; Iran-linked actors claimed a wiper attack against medtech firm Stryker. Law enforcement in the U.S., Canada and Germany disrupted four large IoT botnets (Aisuru, Kimwolf, JackSkid and Mossad) that had infected millions of devices and enabled massive DDoS campaigns; the Kimwolf botnet also disrupted the I2P anonymity network and its alleged “