State-sponsored Iranian groups and hacktivists regularly target poorly secured US networks and Internet-connected devices for disruptive cyber attacks. The US, among other countries, has designated the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a foreign terrorist group since 2019.Hackers sponsored by the Iranian government are credited with hacking a US-based children’s hospital, a dam in New York and compromising the vulnerabilities of a Pennsylvania water authority and others across the US.Iranian state actor groups have also been accused by CISA of using “brute force such as password spraying and multifactor authentication ‘push bombing,’” with multiple phone notifications, to gain access to US organisations through programs like Microsoft 365, Azure and Citrix systems. How strong is Iran’s hacktivists ?

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