[liberationtech] Malware, DPI, and Phishing -- Iran's Interesting Month of March

[Collin Anderson]

Libtech,

On Friday, Small Media released its third edition of the Iranian Internet
Infrastructure and Policy Report series, chronicling the events relating to
Internet censorship in February and March.

http://smallmedia.org.uk/InfoFlowReportMARCH.pdf

In addition to the blocking of VPN, Tor and other anti-filtering services,
we document throttling, the blocking of VoIP and the return of phishing and
malware against individuals inside and outside of the country. Masquerading
as satire or tools, these attacks bring light to a private hacking
community that has matured in recent years, and whose motivations are
unclear. The series began late last year on the understanding that we can
better predict the future when the motivations and actions of key actors
are better understood. There is no better affirmation of this than the
timing of the February edition of this series, where it predicted,

“When the Supreme Council of Cyberspace promotes new policies on the
registration of VPNs, we can expect that unregistered VPN connection will
be blocked and throttled.”


Small Media will host a Google Hangout to discuss the findings of this
report and forecasts for the upcoming months on Tuesday April 16 at 1500
GMT. If you would like to participate in this call, please register your
interest here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dFRCRVkyYjA4VkV3bG1ReUJDRWcwWWc6MQ#gid=0

Cordially,
Collin

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*Collin David Anderson*
averysmallbird.com | @cda | Washington, D.C.
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