This country’s hacking efforts have become too big to ignore
While hackers linked to China, North Korea and Russia have dominated headlines over the past year, similar groups in Iran have caused significant damage while drawing far less attention. Multiple cyber-espionage groups attributed to Iran became increasingly active over the last 12 months, as at least four entities with ties to the regime have broken into a wide array of organizations, according to private sector cybersecurity experts and three former U.S. intelligence officials with knowledge of regional activity. “For the first time in my career, I’m not convinced we’re responding more to Russia or China,” FireEye CEO Kevin Mandia said in a report published by the company on Thursday. “It feels to me that the majority of the actors we’re responding to right now are hosted in Iran, and they are state-sponsored.” This surge in digital espionage — which has predominantly come in the form of spearphishing emails, strategic web compromises and breached social […]
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