US Treasury Sanctions Iranian Officials for Cyberattack on Pennsylvania Water Facility
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The US Treasury Department announced sanctions against a half dozen Iranian government officials for their role in targeting devices at a Pennsylvania water utility in November 2023.
The sanctions targeted Hamid Reza Lashgarian, the head of the IRGC-CEC and a commander in the IRGC-Qods Force, and five other senior IRGC-CEC officials: Mahdi Lashgarian, Hamid Homayunfal, Milad Mansuri, Mohammad Bagher Shirinkar, and Reza Mohammad Amin Saberian.
Working behind a flimsy persona, the “Cyber Av3ngers,” the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Cyber-Electronic Command (IRGC-CEC) targeted programmable logic controllers manufactured by Unitronics, an Israeli company, includi…
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