Ping First, Boom Second

Ping First, Boom Second

What if your vessel tracking systems and security cameras weren't just monitoring your assets...but painting targets for incoming missiles? That's what Amazon Threat Intelligence and others have observed from Iranian cyber threat groups like Imperial Kitten and Muddy Water, using cyber espionage to enable kinetic strikes by Iran and its proxies like the Houthis. In this talk, you'll discover how some Iranian threat groups have leveraged vessel management information for strikes, and how others have used CCTV feeds for pre-attack reconnaissance. You'll leave understanding Iran's cyber-physical convergence and where network intrusions can enable kinetic activities.