In recent weeks, hackers believed to be working for the Iranian government have targeted U.S. government agencies, as well as sectors of the economy, including oil and gas, sending waves of spear-phishing emails, according to representatives of cybersecurity companies CrowdStrike and FireEye, which regularly track such activity.
Tensions have escalated since the U.S. withdrew from the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran last year and began a policy of "maximum pressure." Iran has since been hit by multiple rounds of sanctions. Tensions spiked this past week after Iran shot down an unmanned U.S. drone -- an incident that nearly led to a U.S. military strike against Iran on Thursday evening.
The National Security Agency would not address discuss Iranian cyber actions specifically but said in a statement to The Associated Press on Friday that "there have been serious issues with malicious Iranian cyber actions in the past." "This is not a remote war ," said Sergio Caltagirone, vice-president of threat intelligence at Dragos, Inc. "This is one where Iranians could quote unquote bring the war home to the United States."
In 2016, the U.S. indicted Iranian hackers for a series of punishing cyberattacks on U.S. banks and a small dam outside of New York City.
Freedom for the Iranian people is needed now.
Just FYI, this is a photo of the guys who don’t like the guys you’re helping to start a war with.
Stop putting MEK pictures. They are not Iranian. They are Saudis employee.
I didn't know they had the brains to do something as technical as hacking!
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