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.
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...