[HN Gopher] Iranian Citizens Charged in Broad Hacking Campaign i...
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Iranian Citizens Charged in Broad Hacking Campaign in US
Author : hassanahmad
Score : 44 points
Date : 2022-09-16 16:30 UTC (6 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.insurancejournal.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.insurancejournal.com)
| buzzwords wrote:
| Are 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 wrote:
| Ransomware 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.
| orange_joe wrote:
| how is this being overstated? It's fairly neutral toned story
| being published in a highly specific trade journal.
| khoobid_shoma wrote:
| Propaganda
| metacritic12 wrote:
| Iranian 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 wrote:
| Did 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.
| [deleted]
| pessimizer wrote:
| Pretty 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 wrote:
| Was this the thing the Albanian government was pissed about at
| the Iran state?
| that_guy_iain wrote:
| I doubt it, I think that was when someone released the entire
| Albanian social security (maybe some other department)
| database.
| tonmoy wrote:
| 13!, so 6227020800 hackers? That's a lot!
| kube-system wrote:
| Here's the actual DOJ press release:
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| https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/three-iranian-nationals-charg...
| eternalban wrote:
| The 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.
| mistrial9 wrote:
| it takes two minutes to read enough the article to know, it
| was contractors to State-level intelligence, doing side
| business as ordinary ransomware. As others say, this hardly
| seems to be a story at all, very common.. on all sides.
| zelag wrote:
| Or parallel construction.
| cronix wrote:
| This 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.
| Arnavion wrote:
| Thankfully Reader Mode fixes it.
| bobthepanda wrote:
| I'm also using FF Mac and it looks like a normal news site to
| me (centered max-width container)
| [deleted]
| pazimzadeh wrote:
| Why is this a story? Like most countries that are still around,
| Iran will retaliate when it's attacked.
| kodah wrote:
| It'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.
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