CNN: US warns that Iranian government-sponsored hackers are targeting key US infrastructure
Washington (CNN)Iranian government-sponsored hackers are actively targeting a "broad range of victims" across multiple US sectors, including transportation and health care, and in some cases have deployed ransomware against those victims, US federal agencies and their counterparts from the United Kingdom and Australia warned on Wednesday.
It's a rare case of the US government publicly linking Iran with ransomware, which is typically used by cybercriminals rather than governments. And it's a reminder that America's ransomware problem is not limited to Russia.
The Iranian hackers are exploiting known flaws in software made by Microsoft and California-based vendor Fortinet to access systems and at times lock them up with ransomware, according to the advisory from the FBI, US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Australian Cyber Security Centre and the UK's National Cyber Security Centre.
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WNU Editor: Here is another interesting BBC report on hackers .... Evil Corp: 'My hunt for the world's most wanted hackers' (BBC).
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