"Handala has allegedly launched many attacks against Israel, including wiping military weather servers, hijacking security camera feeds, exfiltrating and deleting corporate data, publicly exposing details of intelligence personnel, and compromising an oil and gas exploration firm."
"The Justice Department has now confirmed the connection between Handala and Iran's MOIS, after it took down four websites used by the hacker group for psychological operations."
"The Justice Department said Iran's MOIS used the seized websites in furtherance of attempted psychological operations targeting adversaries of the regime by claiming credit for hacking activity, posting sensitive data stolen during such hacks, and calling for the killing of journalists, regime dissidents, and Israeli persons."
The US government has officially connected the Handala hacker group to Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and Security. Handala has ramped up cyber attacks against Israel, including significant disruptions to the US-based Stryker medical technology firm. The group is viewed as a pro-Palestinian hacktivist organization but is considered a cover for the Iranian state-sponsored threat actor Void Manticore. The Justice Department seized four websites used by Handala for psychological operations, which included claims of hacking and threats against journalists and dissidents.
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