LABSCon23 Replay | Meet the Iranian Company Powering Russia’s Drone War on Ukraine

Adam Rawnsley has spent the past decade reporting in-depth on Iran’s UAV industry and paying particular attention to the IRGC drone company Mado and its CEO Yousef Aboutalebi. One day in 2021, a self-professed “hacktivist” popped into Adam’s direct messages, told him his “group” had noticed Adam had done the most work on Mado, and dumped videos and documents allegedly hacked from the company’s network and CEO.

The material—painstakingly verified with the help of colleagues—fleshes out a portrait of the …

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