"As strikes hit Tehran on Saturday morning, millions of Iranians got a strange push notification on their phones. The BadeSaba Calendar prayer app, which has more than 5 million downloads, had been compromised, and the app issued alerts saying, "Help has arrived!" and called for a "People's Army" to defend their "Iranian brothers," according to an assessment from cyber intel firm Flashpoint."
"According to Flashpoint, what followed on Sunday was the "most aggressive" use so far of what's known as Iran's "Great Epic" cyber campaign, which is a loosely coordinated group of cyber operatives under a channel called the "Cyber Islamic Resistance." Under the group's umbrella, various cyber attackers have shut down gas stations in Jordan, and led attacks against U.S. and Israeli military providers."
"The next 48 hours are likely to be a period of "extreme volatility" where hacktivists and proxies "take the lead in escalation to fill the vacuum left by Tehran's central command," Flashpoint noted in an update. These actors are allegedly using Telegram and Reddit as a coordination hub, posting screenshots of alleged attacks as proof."
During Saturday strikes on Tehran, Iranian cyber operatives compromised the BadeSaba Calendar prayer app, which has over 5 million downloads, sending notifications calling for a "People's Army" to defend Iran. The regime responded Sunday with aggressive counter-attacks through the "Great Epic" cyber campaign, a loosely coordinated group operating under "Cyber Islamic Resistance." These operatives have previously targeted gas stations in Jordan and U.S./Israeli military providers. With Iranian leadership decimated by strikes, decentralized hacktivists and proxies are escalating operations through Telegram and Reddit, creating extreme volatility. This demonstrates a template Iranian proxy groups could deploy against Western companies, while Tehran's centralized cyber command structure faces significant disruption.
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