Security News > 2020 > January > Hackers Deface U.S. Gov Website With Pro-Iran Messages

UPDATE. A U.S. government website was vandalized late Saturday by hackers who posted images of a bloodied President Donald Trump being punched in the face and pro-Iran messages.

The hackers, who struck as tensions between the U.S. and Iran heat up, claimed to be "Iran cyber security group hackers," however, there's no evidence to confirm any attribution to Iran at the moment, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

A CISA spokesperson told Threatpost that "a misconfiguration with the content management system allowed a malicious actor to deface the website." The misconfiguration has been corrected and the website is now operational, the spokesperson said.

Conflict between the U.S. and Iran peaked after U.S. drones on Jan. 3 killed Qassem Soleimani, an Iranian general with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps who was highly-esteemed in Iran.

Security experts say one particularly worrisome cyberthreat from Iran is the deployment of destructive wiper malware - which has the singular purpose of destroying systems or data, usually causing great financial and reputational damage to victim companies.

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