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Offline TomSea

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US Charges 9 Iranians With Massive Cyberattack
« on: March 23, 2018, 04:45:18 pm »
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US Charges 9 Iranians With Massive Cyberattack


FILE - Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, speaks to the media.

A federal grand jury in New York has indicted nine Iranians for carrying out a years-long campaign to steal research and other proprietary data from hundreds of American and foreign research universities, private companies and government institutions, the Justice Department announced on Friday.

According to an indictment unsealed on Friday, the hackers worked on behalf of the Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and began their hacking campaign in 2013.

The suspects worked for Mabna Institute, an organization founded by two of the hackers with the aim of helping Iranian universities gain access to scientific research.



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Re: US Charges 9 Iranians With Massive Cyberattack
« Reply #1 on: March 23, 2018, 05:16:10 pm »
FBI investigation started in 2013 reaches indictment in 2018.

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