A joint document released by intelligence and intelligence agencies from the United States, Britain and Australia reveals that crackers in the service of the Iranian regime have targeted a wide range of infrastructures in the United States, including health facilities, transportation and registration in the country.
This is a rare case where the US administration directly links Tehran to cyber attacks in the territory of the United States and the document claims that these are mainly ransomware attacks, in which the hackers need large sums of money to prevent damage and "release" the paralyzed systems.
In part of the document compiled by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, it is stated that the crackers exploit weaknesses in the products of the American company Microsoft and other mining companies, in order to attack various systems.
"The Iranian government is funding elements that can infiltrate, encrypt and crack code in order to damage infrastructure and carry out extortion," the report said.
"We take the phenomenon very seriously," Errol Weiss, head of the Health Information Center in the United States, told CNN.
"I was very happy for the opportunity to go over this document and put it together with the government before it came out," the expert continues.
The report did not specify which elements of the US health and transportation system were attacked by the hackers. Federal authorities in the United States often refrain from publishing the names of institutions and individuals attacked in a ransom attack, so as not to encourage other hackers to perform similar actions.
