Facebooks takes down over 200 Iranian Hacker Accounts used to target US Military Personnel This week Facebook disabled a sophisticated online cyber espionage campaign by Iranian threat actor AKA Tortoiseshell which was targeting about 200 military personnel and companies in the defense and aerospace using fake online personas. The hackers used fictitious personas to contact its targets, building trust over months, posing as recruiters and employees of defense related companies.

Kaseya which provides solutions to managed service providers (MSP) was the victim of a ransomware attack on July 2. There were up to 1500 small to medium-sized companies that may have had their systems compromised through their MSP.Kayseya provides remote-monitoring and management tools for networks and endpoints as well as compliance systems and service desks. Over 40,000 organizations worldwide use at least one Kaseya software solution that makes it central to a wide software supply chain.