US Finds Iran Link to Cyber Crime Group ‘Muddy Water’
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Roshan Amiri
- . February 25, 2022
- . Update: February 25, 2022 9:41 pm
Iran–The United States has found that the Iran linked Muddy Water group has been carrying out cyber-attacks, especially in hacking government and private-sector organisations that are located in Asia, Africa, Europe and North America.
The cyber operation group has been given the name Muddy Water. Intelligence gathering discovered certain Iranian individuals have been systematically conducting malicious cyber operations in the telecoms, defence, local government and oil and natural gas sectors.
Their activities have been carrying on since 2015. It has been hidden under the guise of legitimate business data gathering. This has been discovered by the UK and the US. When questioned and confronted, Iran has flatly refused any wrongdoing. Iran’s mission to the UN in New York rejected “these baseless allegations and believes these allegations are part and parcel of the psychological warfare waged against Iran and of no factual or legal value whatsoever.”
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