Pretty unremarkable story if not for the nationalist implications. Turns out there might be at least 3 hackers (and possibly up to 13!) doing ransomware in Iran.
Ransomware is an actual threat. The fact that it can originate in Iran doesn't necessarily mean that it is more dangerous than ransomware from anywhere else.
Individual hackers of minimal skill are a threat to the IT infrastructure used by every organization in the US, so yes. If you mean is there a differential danger relative to other potential threats, then no.
My interpretation of your statement is that organizations in the US don't care about security and do the bare minimum to secure their systems, if anything at all
My mother runs a healthcare center that had a ransomware attack from Iranian hackers during the pandemic. For a few days during the peak of the pandemic their IT systems stopped working and it impacted operations. I think it was a common practice to wait for an opportune crisis to strike. That probably resulted in more people dying from the pandemic.
The compromised machines call home to domains registered to the defendants in their own names. This is either state level incompetence or script kiddies gone wild.
it takes two minutes to read enough the article to know, it was contractors to State-level intelligence, doing side business as ordinary ransomware. As others say, this hardly seems to be a story at all, very common.. on all sides.
This is basically unreadable. The whole article is forced to the right side of the page and only a single word per line (current Firefox/Mac). It then floats on top of the right sidebar categories leaving 9/10ths of the screen as white space.
Iranian state-related hackers broke into a NJ accounting firm?
How many instances of this happen every day? Also what are the actual chances of the hackers going to jail given they're state-related?
On a larger scale, why doesn't the DoJ just prosecute every Russian solider? They're accomplices to war crimes and murder after all.
All this will read in a few hundred years after the collapse of the US empire to be utter hubris. Like Hannibal whipping a river. Or old medieval states digging up dead people to behead them again. It's just the US state screaming into the void.
Did you read the article? The justice department is claiming they specifically are not state sponsored attacks.
Also mentioned in the article the ramifications for the individuals, it’s near impossible for them to leave Iran and they have been sanctioned financially.
It's a story any time one country hacks another and the public finds out about it. There's very little "retaliation" in the grand scheme of things today; more long on-going conflict with no end among shifting ideologically opposed opportunists.
