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Cybersecurity Alert: Iran's Cyber Threats & US Defense
Jun 29, 2025
We discuss the rising cyber threats from Iran targeting US infrastructure and private sector. Our expert details Iran's cyber capabilities, attack methods, and the importance of heightened vigilance. We also touch on US offensive capabilities. #Cybersecurity #IranCyberattacks #CyberThreats #USDefense #CybersecurityAlert #CISA #NationalSecurity #CyberWarfare #InfraStructure #Security
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expert David. We have seen the Iranian
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regime which obviously at least for now
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its missiles appear to be a little
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impotent. That's good news. But they are
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still a risk on the cyber side, are they
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not? That's absolutely correct. Iran has
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been building up their cyber
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capabilities for for a number of years
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and they are on par with other nation
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states. Uh they very much leverage their
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cyber capabilities very similarly to
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what we do here in the United States
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with cyber command, a direct extension
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of military force. And so DHS recently
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released an advisory along with CISA,
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the cyber security infrastructure and
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security agency around uh private sector
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corporations and government entities to
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be on high alert right now uh for these
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cyber attacks. And you know what's
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really interesting about cyber attacks
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is that there's really been no red lines
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ever drawn there. It's kind of a loose
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playing field. So Iran can inflict some
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pretty substantial damage here in the
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United States specifically, you know, in
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manufacturing, supply chain, retail, uh
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critical infrastructure, uh things that
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can disrupt our normal day life that
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cause pain here in the United States and
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really not be seen as crossing that that
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red line of loss of life or direct
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military uh force as it goes along. So
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we're all on heightened alert right now
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and my advice to private sector
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corporations is to be at high alert
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right now uh from a defensive
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perspective because we are anticipating
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some retaliation uh from Iran
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specifically from their cyber
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capabilities. Yeah and we just showed
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some of the stocks the forinets the
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crowd strikes the zscalers we can bring
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them back up guys they are all higher by
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about one and a half to 2 and a half% as
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well. So anything related to that is is
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higher right now. The markets by the way
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are are at session highs. Palo Alto is
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up about 1.7%. If you're a company right
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now, David, if you're advising a
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corporation who are always on the
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lookout, by the way, for cyber threats,
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what is your is there new advice here?
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Yeah, Iran operates by a very specific
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playbook. Um, you know, they typically
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go after user accounts through fishing
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or social engineering. They directly
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attack external perimeters. Um, most
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recently, they've been getting more into
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the cloud infrastructure and software as
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a service provider. So, can they impact
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not just one organization or company but
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hundreds if not thousands of
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corporations and companies? They've also
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been probing our critical
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infrastructure, our grids, water
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treatment facilities. Uh, interesting
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statistic, over 85% of our critical
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infrastructure is private sector owned.
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It's not owned by the government. So,
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right now, you know, we have to be very
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digent on putting our defenses up and
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monitoring for those specific issues um
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as they arise so that we can minimize
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the damage. you know it the catastrophic
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breaches that we see is when you an
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attacker has been in an infrastructure
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for a long you know maintained period of
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time and that's the major concern Iran
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has been you know trying to conduct
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these operations for this type of event
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so you know they have footholds in
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organizations they have footholds in
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critical infrastructure that may not
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have been detected at this period of
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time uh that they can launch these types
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of attacks and cause these massive
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outages we have to be really diligent to
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try to find these before that actually
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happens and uh that's my my
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recommendation to companies right now is
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be very digent more so than normal uh
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because of these times and Iran
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specifically targeting these other
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industry verticals which is not typical
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for them is something that's definitely
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going to happen. You know I don't want
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to put you on the spot David but we're
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kind of rolling with the news here that
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there's the ability the United States to
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kind of take take Iran offline. I mean
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the people there have very limited
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access to information as well but could
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we just kind of wipe out their internet
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for lack of a better term? We we
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definitely have those capabilities uh
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with the NSA uh their offensive
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capabilities as well as with cyber
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command. Uh we are very good at what we
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do. Um I was actually stationed in
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Bahrain in Iraq in Qatar wait all these
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areas that are that are known uh that
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are being h that's happening right now.
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And our our offensive capabilities are
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are second to none and that's definitely
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something that's on the playing table
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for um these types of operations. But
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again, it's more of an escalatory type
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of event, right? We came in with the the
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bombs. Iran sent six that were
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intercepted and and and seems to be a
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deescalation situation. If we go and we
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start conducting these operations uh
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abroad, which I'm sure they're already
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happening. What do you mean you were
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stationed there? I did not that you're
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breaking news to us on the air, David.
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What What did you do over there? I was
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in the intelligence community. Um I did
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two tours in Iraq uh and one in Bahrain
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and then uh Afghanistan and spent a lot
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of time in the Middle