Crime & Justice

Iranian Government Hackers Want in on the Ransomware Hacking Sprees, FBI Warns

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Iranian government-linked hackers have been going after a children’s hospital and a municipal government, as well as targets in the transportation sector with ransomware attacks.

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Ransomware gangs that hack into companies, lock up their computers, then demand ransoms to free them up, have frequently been tied back to Russian-speaking hackers—but Iranian government-linked hackers are getting in on the action, too, the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security’s cybersecurity agency CISA warned in an alert...

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