Iranian hackers becoming more aggressive

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Trade Arabia
13 May 2014

Iranian hackers have become increasingly aggressive and sophisticated, 
moving from disrupting and defacing US websites to engaging in cyber 
espionage, security experts say.

According to Silicon Valley-based cybersecurity company FireEye, a group 
called the Ajax Security Team has become the first Iranian hacking group 
known to use custom-built malicious software to launch espionage 
campaigns.

Ajax is behind an ongoing series of attacks on US defense companies and 
has also targeted Iranians who are trying to circumvent Tehran's Internet 
censorship efforts, FireEye said in a report to be published on Tuesday.

Many security experts have said that Iran is behind a series of 
denial-of-service attacks that have disrupted the online banking 
operations of major US banks over the past few years.

"I've grown to fear a nation state that would never go toe-to-toe with us 
in conventional combat that now suddenly finds they can arrest our 
attention with cyber attacks," Michael Hayden, former director of the CIA 
and the National Security Agency, told the Reuters Cybersecurity Summit on 
Monday.

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