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Nichirei Cyberattack Leaves Japan's Frozen Food Chain on Ice
Japanese frozen food giant Nichirei was hit by a cyberattack on July 13, forcing it to disconnect its systems and disrupting operations at its refrigerated warehouses and shipping divisions, with knock-on effects for restaurants, retailers, and delivery services. The company confirmed that hackers targeted its servers and that some affected systems contained personal information, prompting an initial report to Japan's Personal Information Protection Commission over a potential data leak. Nichirei announced it would begin gradually restoring operations but has withheld details of the attack, leaving it unclear whether a ransomware group was involved.
Iran's MOIS-Linked Hackers Deploy Modular C2 Framework Against Israeli Targets
An Iranian hacking group called Cavern Manticore, linked to Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and Security, has been targeting Israeli IT providers and government organisations using a newly discovered modular command-and-control framework called Cavern. The framework exploits SysAid's software update feature to deploy a trojanised DLL, enabling capabilities such as file theft, database access, Active Directory reconnaissance, network scanning, and tunnelling, while using multiple .NET compilation formats to deliberately complicate reverse engineering and forensic analysis. The group has also been observed moving laterally through trusted IT supply chain relationships and abusing remote monitoring tools, with related Iranian threat actors simultaneously conducting broader reconnaissance and data exfiltration campaigns across the Middle East.