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Three Iranian Nationals Charged with Ransomware Extortion Against U.S. Critical Infrastructure
(U.S. Department of Justice) Three Iranian nationals were indicted for orchestrating a scheme to hack into the computer networks of multiple U.S. victims, the U.S. Attorney's Office in New Jersey announced Wednesday. Since October 2020, Mansour Ahmadi, Ahmad Khatibi Aghda, and Amir Hossein Nickaein Ravari, all residents of Iran, engaged in a scheme to access computer systems in the U.S., UK, Israel, and elsewhere, causing damage and losses to the victims. They also conducted encryption attacks, denying victims access to their systems and data unless a ransom payment was made.