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US sanctions Iranian officials over cyber-attacks on water plants
A harshly worded sanction I hope.[BBC] The US has imposed sanctions on six officials in Iran's powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) which it says are responsible for the cyber-attacks on American water plants late last year. The US has said an Iranian-backed militia group is responsible for that attack. "The deliberate targeting of critical infrastructure by Iranian cyber actors is an unconscionable and dangerous act," said Brian Nelson, Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, in the announcement. The sanctioned individuals are part of the IRGC's Cyber-Electronic Command (IRGC-CEC), and include Hamid Reza Lashgarian, the head of the cyber organisation, and also a commander in the IRGC-Quds Force. The Quds Force is Iran's shadowy overseas operations arm, which the US accuses of being responsible for attacks in the Middle East. Mr Nelson added that "the United States will not tolerate such actions and will use the full range of our tools and authorities to hold the perpetrators to account". The US Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (Cisa) calls America's water systems that residents rely on to drink clean water 'target-rich, cyber-poor'. "It's why Cisa moves with such urgency," said the agency's executive assistant director for cyber-security, Eric Goldstein, in an interview with the BBC. He said there could be "a hypothetical scenario where [the cyber-attacks] had life-safety impact and affected the potability of water". Notice: Trying to get property 'id' of non-object in /var/www/html/rantburg/ajax/refsorg.php on line 44 Related: Cisa: 2023-04-17 Buttigieg Says Traffic Fatalities Happen Because of 'A Lot of Reasons Related to Discrimination' (VIDEO) Cisa: 2023-04-12 Only the tip of the iceberg': Pentagon leaks traced to Discord, a gamer-centric chat app Cisa: 2023-04-11 Historic Intel Leak Traced Back To Biden Hitting 'Reply All' On Email Posted by: Skidmark 2024-02-03 |
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