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Iranian Citizens Charged in Broad Hacking Campaign in US
- cronix 4y agoThis 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.
- bobthepanda 4y agoI'm also using FF Mac and it looks like a normal news site to me (centered max-width container)
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- Arnavion 4y agoThankfully Reader Mode fixes it.
- pessimizer 4y agoPretty 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.
- rightbyte 4y agoWas this the thing the Albanian government was pissed about at the Iran state?
- that_guy_iain 4y agoI doubt it, I think that was when someone released the entire Albanian social security (maybe some other department) database.
- tonmoy 4y ago13!, so 6227020800 hackers? That’s a lot!
- kube-system 4y agoHere's the actual DOJ press release: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/three-iranian-nationals-charged-engaging-computer-intrusions-and-ransomware-style-extortion https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/three-iranian-nationals-charg...
- eternalban 4y agoThe 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.
- buzzwords 4y agoAre Iranian hackers an actual threat? Or is threat being overstated for propaganda? It's a genuine question, please don't start a flame war.
- kube-system 4y agoRansomware 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.
- khoobid_shoma 4y agoPropaganda
- orange_joe 4y agohow is this being overstated? It's fairly neutral toned story being published in a highly specific trade journal.
- Veserv 4y agoIndividual 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.
- feet 4y agoMy 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 Sounds accurate, sadly
- pazimzadeh 4y agoWhy is this a story? Like most countries that are still around, Iran will retaliate when it's attacked.
- kodah 4y agoIt'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.
- metacritic12 4y agoIranian 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.
- kasey_junk 4y agoDid 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.
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- yyyk 4y agoThe actual context here is a thwarted attack on Boston's Children's Hospital. The FBI is angry, and they intend to hunt these 'hackers' down: https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/cybersecurity/3-iranian-nationals-charged-in-thwarted-cyberattack-on-boston-children-s-hospital.html https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/cybersecurity/3-irania... Judging by the names these are the same people?