Data Breach Exposes Iranian Cybersecurity Academy's Student Information

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The Ravin Academy, a training institution for Iranian state hackers, experienced a data breach that revealed the personal information of over 1,000 individuals associated with the academy. The leak was made public by British-Iranian activist Nariman Gharib on October 22. Established in 2019, the academy has faced sanctions from the UK, US, and EU for its role in recruiting cyber specialists for Iranian intelligence operations.

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10 entities, 22 inferred relationships (STIX 2.1).

Threat Actor (4)

Apt34
Helix Kitten
MuddyWater
OilRig

Technique (2)

Data Breach
Remote Code Execution

Organization (1)

Ravin Academy

Vulnerability (2)

CVE-2020-0688
CVE-2020-1472

Affected Platform (1)

Microsoft Exchange

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Apt34 uses Data Breach
Apt34 uses Remote Code Execution
Helix Kitten uses Data Breach
Helix Kitten uses Remote Code Execution
MuddyWater uses Data Breach
MuddyWater uses Remote Code Execution
OilRig uses Data Breach
OilRig uses Remote Code Execution
Apt34 exploits CVE-2020-0688
Apt34 exploits CVE-2020-1472
Helix Kitten exploits CVE-2020-0688
Helix Kitten exploits CVE-2020-1472
MuddyWater exploits CVE-2020-0688
MuddyWater exploits CVE-2020-1472
OilRig exploits CVE-2020-0688
OilRig exploits CVE-2020-1472
CVE-2020-0688 targets Microsoft Exchange
CVE-2020-1472 targets Microsoft Exchange
Apt34 targets Ravin Academy
Helix Kitten targets Ravin Academy
MuddyWater targets Ravin Academy
OilRig targets Ravin Academy

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