Cyber Threats Linked to Iran-Israel Conflict

This ReliaQuest intelligence report assesses an ongoing escalation of cyber activity tied to the Iran–Israel kinetic confrontation: pro‑Iranian and pro‑Israeli hacktivists and Iranian‑linked APTs (e.g., APT34, APT35, CyberAv3ngers, Predatory Sparrow, Handala, Team 313) have conducted DDoS, data leak, OT/PLC exploitation, and espionage operations against government, financial, energy, and critical‑infrastructure targets; the report documents observed TTPs, recent incidents (including claimed data theft and service outages), forecasts likely near‑term retaliation and OT/espionage targeting, and provides mitigation guidance such as DDoS protection, patching, MFA, and securing public‑facing OT devices.