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I've been wondering if we'd see a cyber campaign emerge in this conflict. To my knowledge Iran seems to have pretty advanced cyber capabilities and increasingly

by macNchz 6mo ago

I've been wondering if we'd see a cyber campaign emerge in this conflict. To my knowledge Iran seems to have pretty advanced cyber capabilities and increasingly fewer reasons to hold back. Gloves-off cyber war doesn't sound good to me. The US CISA already been cut back, has lost "virtually all of its top officials"^, doesn't have a permanent director, and is operating at a further reduced capacity because of the DHS shutdown. ^ https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/cisa-senior-official-departures/748992/ https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/cisa-senior-official-...

mandeepj 6mo ago
> To my knowledge Iran seems to have pretty advanced cyber capabilities and increasingly fewer reasons to hold back. Iran isn’t alone!! They are a quad along with China, Russia, and North Korea.
- Painsawman123 6mo ago
  that's the thing that people overlook the most in regards to this war.iran isn’t doing this on its own. Russia, China and north korea have been backing it from the start. they’re the ones helping with intel on US base locations across the Middle East, supplying drones, and working out strategies to drag things into a stalemate, plus whatever else iran needs along the way
  - epolanski 6mo ago
    Can you blame them? Iran is fighting for its own survival and has to find help where it can. If the US had an educated administration not composed by lap dogs they would've known that attacking Iran was going to be a terrible idea. Saddam did the same mistake in 1980. He thought that the Iranian Kurds, the political opponents, the Iranian Arabs, civilians were going to raise against the regime. None of this happened. None. In fact, hundreds of thousands of people, even kids, rallied around the banner. There are documented stories of 13 year olds, jumping on barbed wire to use their bodies as bridges for infantry. Disgusting, yet telling of the fact that the Persians will do everything to defend their land even if they don't like its leadership. It's very difficult to convince people you're bombing left that you're helping them get rid of a regime (which, you never know for sure how popular or unpopular it is). Iranians, yet again, are rallying around the flag for what is effectively a foreign aggression.
    - kstenerud 6mo ago
      Iran has been preparing for this war for 40 years. So has Israel. They will engage in a battle of supremacy over the Middle East. Both want the USA knocked out so that the Americans can't use their influence there anymore (both consider the USA a nuisance). As soon as ground troops land in Iran, it's over for the USA. As it is, oil and goods shipping via the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea will be controlled by Iran for a very long time to come. All Iran has to do is withstand the pummeling, which it very likely will do. And they'll get plenty of support from China, since this plays into the South China Seas plan quite nicely as the USA moves carrier after carrier out of Asia.
      - 1234letshaveatw 6mo ago
        The corpses of Irans’s leadership have us right where they want us
        SmirkingRevenge 6mo ago
        It's relative. We're in a pretty bad spot relative to where we were before the attack, and so is the world economy. The Iranian regime is doing much better so far, relative to where they should be after a joint military attack from the US/Israel and maybe even relative to where they were just a few months ago. The previous Ayatollah was 86 and had multiple bouts of pancreatic cancer. He was on deaths door, Iran was destabilizing with bouts of protest and repression, the regime itself suffered major military blows, and a potentially rocky and fractured transition was imminent. Thanks to the war, the regime survived a transition, and seems consolidated around the son of the former Ayatollah, who's entire family was killed by our strikes, and the US seems largely impotent as Iran chokes off a large portion of the worlds oil supply and strikes at energy assets in the ME.
        1234letshaveatw 6mo ago
        The son seems to have a distinct lack of “vitality” lol
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  - limagnolia 6mo ago
    Russia and North Korea are obviously doing so, but I haven't seen any direct evidence that China is providing intelligence support to Iran, do you have any links? It is certainly plausible, China would love to see Russia tied up in Ukraine and the US tied up in Iran.
    - kasey_junk 6mo ago
      There has been speculation that China is letting Iran use their satellites for targeting but it’s not confirmed. China is for sure providing material for drone and rocket manufacturing as well as air defense systems. https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2026/01/28/how-china-aims-to-block-mossad-operations-in-iran/ https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2026/01/28/how-china-aims-to-bloc...
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40four 6mo ago
I forget all the details but a hacker group associated with Iran already hacked the infrastructure of a major US health care tech company
- derwiki 6mo ago
  Stryker. FWIW a friend in ER medicine said it had very very limited effect.
  - 40four 6mo ago
    That’s right thanks. The same Hacker group as this story. Yeah I didn’t hear much after the initial breach so I assumed it was minor. Edit: apparently 80000 employee workstations got remotely wiped. So not so I guess I wouldn’t call that minor. Also that’s what I get for commenting before reading the story, they mention the Styker incident in the story lol
rozal 6mo ago
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mghackerlady 6mo ago
They got rid of all the trans people (and presumably with them a lot of the furries)... if there's 2 groups you want on your side in a cyber-conflict it's trans women and furries

by macNchz 6mo ago

mandeepj 6mo ago

> To my knowledge Iran seems to have pretty advanced cyber capabilities and increasingly fewer reasons to hold back. Iran isn’t alone!! They are a quad along with China, Russia, and North Korea.

Painsawman123 6mo ago
that's the thing that people overlook the most in regards to this war.iran isn’t doing this on its own. Russia, China and north korea have been backing it from the start. they’re the ones helping with intel on US base locations across the Middle East, supplying drones, and working out strategies to drag things into a stalemate, plus whatever else iran needs along the way
- epolanski 6mo ago
  Can you blame them? Iran is fighting for its own survival and has to find help where it can. If the US had an educated administration not composed by lap dogs they would've known that attacking Iran was going to be a terrible idea. Saddam did the same mistake in 1980. He thought that the Iranian Kurds, the political opponents, the Iranian Arabs, civilians were going to raise against the regime. None of this happened. None. In fact, hundreds of thousands of people, even kids, rallied around the banner. There are documented stories of 13 year olds, jumping on barbed wire to use their bodies as bridges for infantry. Disgusting, yet telling of the fact that the Persians will do everything to defend their land even if they don't like its leadership. It's very difficult to convince people you're bombing left that you're helping them get rid of a regime (which, you never know for sure how popular or unpopular it is). Iranians, yet again, are rallying around the flag for what is effectively a foreign aggression.
  - kstenerud 6mo ago
    Iran has been preparing for this war for 40 years. So has Israel. They will engage in a battle of supremacy over the Middle East. Both want the USA knocked out so that the Americans can't use their influence there anymore (both consider the USA a nuisance). As soon as ground troops land in Iran, it's over for the USA. As it is, oil and goods shipping via the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea will be controlled by Iran for a very long time to come. All Iran has to do is withstand the pummeling, which it very likely will do. And they'll get plenty of support from China, since this plays into the South China Seas plan quite nicely as the USA moves carrier after carrier out of Asia.
    - 1234letshaveatw 6mo ago
      The corpses of Irans’s leadership have us right where they want us
      - SmirkingRevenge 6mo ago
        It's relative. We're in a pretty bad spot relative to where we were before the attack, and so is the world economy. The Iranian regime is doing much better so far, relative to where they should be after a joint military attack from the US/Israel and maybe even relative to where they were just a few months ago. The previous Ayatollah was 86 and had multiple bouts of pancreatic cancer. He was on deaths door, Iran was destabilizing with bouts of protest and repression, the regime itself suffered major military blows, and a potentially rocky and fractured transition was imminent. Thanks to the war, the regime survived a transition, and seems consolidated around the son of the former Ayatollah, who's entire family was killed by our strikes, and the US seems largely impotent as Iran chokes off a large portion of the worlds oil supply and strikes at energy assets in the ME.
        1234letshaveatw 6mo ago
        The son seems to have a distinct lack of “vitality” lol
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- limagnolia 6mo ago
  Russia and North Korea are obviously doing so, but I haven't seen any direct evidence that China is providing intelligence support to Iran, do you have any links? It is certainly plausible, China would love to see Russia tied up in Ukraine and the US tied up in Iran.
  - kasey_junk 6mo ago
    There has been speculation that China is letting Iran use their satellites for targeting but it’s not confirmed. China is for sure providing material for drone and rocket manufacturing as well as air defense systems. https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2026/01/28/how-china-aims-to-block-mossad-operations-in-iran/ https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2026/01/28/how-china-aims-to-bloc...

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40four 6mo ago

I forget all the details but a hacker group associated with Iran already hacked the infrastructure of a major US health care tech company

derwiki 6mo ago
Stryker. FWIW a friend in ER medicine said it had very very limited effect.
- 40four 6mo ago
  That’s right thanks. The same Hacker group as this story. Yeah I didn’t hear much after the initial breach so I assumed it was minor. Edit: apparently 80000 employee workstations got remotely wiped. So not so I guess I wouldn’t call that minor. Also that’s what I get for commenting before reading the story, they mention the Styker incident in the story lol

rozal 6mo ago

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mghackerlady 6mo ago

They got rid of all the trans people (and presumably with them a lot of the furries)... if there's 2 groups you want on your side in a cyber-conflict it's trans women and furries