Hackers in Iran target foreign nuclear experts and US officials

The National (UAE) ^ | Dec 17, 2018, p. 1 | The Associated Press

[Steve Schulin]

Iranian-backed hackers scrambled to break into the personal emails of US Treasury officials after harsh economic sanctions were placed on Tehran last month, a cyber security group said.

The hacking group, named Charming Kitten, also targeted foreign nuclear experts in data tracked by Certfa analysts in the UK.

[Steve Schulin]

The text above is from the print edition of the newspaper. The URL is to the web version of the story, which is from The Associated Press. The title of the web version is "Iranian hackers take aim at foreign nuclear experts and US officials | Tehran-backed group called 'Charming Kitten' increased cyber attacks following Trump sanctions". The web version includes some text not included in the print edition.

[Graybeard58]

Remember:

Bomb, bomb, bomb Iran?

[DoodleBob]

If Hillary was President, Iran would have had a field day with every official following the Podesta Rule and use “password” as their pws.

[oldasrocks]

If we nuked Iran could we blame some hackers from there pushing the wrong buttons?

[Democrats hate too much]

Someone with an Iranian IP address reactivated my facebook account a year or 2 ago. I thought it was strange.

[Blue House Sue]

U.S. Intelligence hacks Iran, Iranian Intelligence hacks the U.S.

Nothing new.