US sanctions Iranian cyber actors as UK discloses power plant attack
US Treasury sanctioned six Iranian MOIS-linked hackers for breaching US agency and UN email accounts as the UK disclosed a four-day power plant shutdown.
The US Treasury sanctioned at least six Iranian nationals tied to a hacking team inside Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) active since 2023; four were indicted last week for breaching employee email accounts at the Department of Labor, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and United Nations organizations. Treasury said the group compromised energy, defense, healthcare, IT and financial sector targets, multiple US government offices in summer 2024, and stole cryptocurrency for personal gain. Separately, Iranian actors reportedly shut down a small British power plant for four days without grid impact, days after FBI and NSA warned of hackers targeting programmable logic controllers in energy, water and agriculture.
- Sanctioned team conducted MOIS-directed espionage and financially motivated theft since 2023
- Four indicted for breaches of Department of Labor, FERC and UN email accounts
- Group hit energy, defense, healthcare, IT, finance and US government offices
- UK power plant offline four days; no power loss or grid impact reported
- FBI and NSA warned of attacks targeting PLCs in energy, water and agriculture
- Threat actors
- MOIS-linked Iranian hacking team
- Countries
- IranUnited StatesUnited Kingdom
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The U. S. sanctioned several Iranian nationals on Monday for cyberattacks on critical infrastructure just days after reports emerged of a cyber intrusion on a small power plant in the United Kingdom.
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