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We Ignore Iran Cyber Attacks at Our Peril

(Washington Post) David Ignatius - A study of "Iran's Cyber Threat" by Collin Anderson and Karim Sadjadpour of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace describes a country that, although "third tier," can still do considerable damage. Iranian hackers began in 2007. A group calling itself the Iranian Cyber Army defaced websites belonging to Voice of America in 2009. The Iranians launched an August 2012 attack on the Saudi Aramco oil company that affected tens of thousands of computers and caused tens of millions of dollars in damage. In September 2012, a hacker group that called itself the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters began attacking U.S. banks and financial institutions. The FBI concluded that from 2012 to 2013, the Iranian operation "locked hundreds of thousands of banking customers out of accounts for long periods of time and resulted in tens of millions of costs to remediate."
2017-12-27 00:00:00
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