Security News > 2020 > January > US warns of Iranian cyber threat

The US Department of Homeland Security has issued a total of three warnings in the last few days encouraging people to be on the alert for physical and cyber attacks from Iran.

The warnings directly address IT professionals with advice on how to secure their networks against Iranian attack.

Iranian attackers could launch attacks targeting intellectual property or mount disinformation campaigns, it said, while also raising the spectre of physical attacks using improvised explosive devices or unmanned drones.

The strike, which congressional leaders condemned, followed mounting rocket attacks against US bases in Iraq over the past two months.

Almost exactly a year before, the US charged Iranian hackers for their role in an attack using the SamSam ransomware.

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