The Washington Post on 23rd March reported that announced that the US Treasury had imposed sanctions and lodged criminal indictments against an Iranian hacker network it said was involved in “one of the largest state-sponsored hacking campaigns” ever prosecuted by the US, and which had targeted hundreds of US and foreign universities, as well as dozens of US companies and government agencies, and the UN. None of the alleged hackers were direct employees of the Iranian government, but all worked at the behest of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, officials said. 9 of 10 named individuals were connected to the Mabna Institute, a Shiraz-based tech firm that the Justice Department alleged hacks on behalf of Iranian universities and the IRGC, and which is itself also made subject to sanctions.
https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/OFAC-Enforcement/Pages/20180323.aspx
The indictment is available at –
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