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Pentagon Secretly Struck Back Against Iranian Cyberspies Targeting U.S. Ships

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Pentagon Secretly Struck Back Against Iranian Cyberspies Targeting U.S. Ships

Pentagon Secretly Struck Back Against Iranian Cyberspies Targeting U.S. Ships by Jenna McLaughlin, Zach Dorfman and Sean D. Naylor - Yahoo News

On Thursday evening, U.S. Cyber Command launched a retaliatory digital strike against an Iranian spy group that supported last week’s limpet mine attacks on commercial ships, according to two former intelligence officials.

The group, which has ties to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, has over the past several years digitally tracked and targeted military and civilian ships passing through the economically important Strait of Hormuz, through which pass 17.4 million barrels of oil per day. Those capabilities, which have advanced over time, enabled attacks on vessels in the region for several years.

Though sources declined to provide any further details of the retaliatory cyber operation, the response highlights how the Persian Gulf has become a staging ground for escalating digital — as well as conventional — conflict, with both the United States and Iran trying to get the upper hand with cyber capabilities…

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SWJED Sun, 06/23/2019 - 9:43pm



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