US Authorities Identify Iranian Connection in Recent Cybersecurity Breaches

It has been announced that six Iranian officials have been sanctioned by the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the Iranian government organization responsible for the series of malicious cyber activities directed against critical infrastructure in the U.S. and other countries. This organization is a part of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Cyber-Electronic Command (IRGC-CEC). 

IRGC-affiliated cyber actors have been involved in recent cyber operations where they hacked and posted images on the screens of programmable logic controllers (PLCs) manufactured by Unitronics, an Israeli company. U.S. authorities are acting against these individuals in response to these recent cyber operations. 

The control devices in water and other critical infrastructure systems, such as PLCs, are sensitive targets. However, even though no critical services have been disrupted during this operation, unauthorized access to critical infrastructure systems can enable actions that are harmful to the public and can have devastating humanitarian effects. 

According to an official statement released by the US Department of Treasury, officials with the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) responsible for cyber attacks against critical infrastructure have been sanctioned. As a result of recent actions taken by actors affiliated with the IRG

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