Security News > 2020 > January > Analysis: Pro-Iranian Hackers' Past, Present, Future Threats

Launching online attacks remains a potent tool in the Iranian government's geopolitical playbook.

U.S. officials have warned U.S. businesses to expect an escalation in online attacks launched by Iranian-allied hackers.

Last October, for example, U.K. and U.S. intelligence agencies reported that Russia had subverted an Iranian advanced persistent threat group's attack infrastructure.

On Saturday, the Department of Homeland Security issued a terrorism threat alert, warning that Iran's "Previous homeland-based plots have included, among other things, scouting and planning against infrastructure targets and cyber-enabled attacks against a range of U.S.-based targets."

In 2011, for example, Google warned some users that they were being targeted by a man-in-the-middle attack campaign being run by the Iranian government.

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