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Iranian cyber operations are entering a new era. In this final episode of our Iran cyber series, we explore how Iranian APT groups are evolving — leveraging AI, targeting supply chains, and bypassing the billion-dollar security stacks built to stop them. Hosts Tova Dvorin and Adrian Culley break down the emerging threats shaping 2026, including: The perimeter is gone. Your weakest vendor may now be your biggest risk.

"Hope is not a strategy." The roots of hacking go deeper than you think—all the way back to Bletchley Park and the first computers ever built. In the latest episode, Adrian Culley joins Tova Dvorin to trace the evolution of offensive security: from 1970s "phone freakers" to the sophisticated Breach & Attack Simulation (BAS) of today. The Insight: Penetration testing was a vital evolution, but it’s a "photo of a moving target." Modern resilience requires a "cyber training gym"—a continuous, automated sparring partner that validates your defenses against the latest TTPs 24/7/365.

June 2025 marked a turning point in cyber warfare. In this episode of The Cyber Resilience Brief, Tova Dvorin and offensive engineer Adrian Cully break down the cyber escalation that followed Operation Rising Lion—what some analysts now describe as Iran’s 12 days of cyber war. As missiles struck Iranian strategic targets, coordinated hacktivist groups like Cyber Avengers and Handala launched psychological operations, mass SMS spoofing campaigns, and attacks targeting operational technology (OT) systems—including Unitronics PLCs used in water and industrial facilities worldwide.

Iran’s APT42 — also known as Charming Kitten or Mint Sandstorm — is redefining social engineering with generative AI, deepfake voice cloning, and long-term phishing campaigns. In this episode of the Cyber Resilience Brief, we break down how Iranian state-sponsored threat actors are using AI-powered phishing, MFA fatigue attacks, credential harvesting, and hack-and-leak operations to target journalists, political campaigns, academics, and enterprise executives.

In this episode of _The Cyber Resilience Brief_, we break down the modern reality of *Iranian cyber warfare and industrial espionage*. Host Tova Dvorin and offensive security engineer Adrian Culley analyze the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) of *APT33, OilRig (APT34), and MuddyWater* — three of the most active Iranian state-sponsored threat actors targeting *energy, aviation, manufacturing, government, and critical infrastructure*.

In today’s cyber landscape, intelligence services often rely on proxy networks to expand their reach. Through ransomware affiliates, access brokers, and loosely connected cybercriminal ecosystems — sometimes referred to conceptually as “Plozny Jurak” — states can benefit from disruptive or espionage activity without direct attribution. To dive deeper, watch the full podcast, Blueprint Thieves: Inside Iran’s Industrial Espionage Machine, at the links below.