U.S. gov’t unveils sanctions, charges, bounties on Iranian ransomware actors

The U.S. government unveiled a slate of sanctions, charges and bounties on Wednesday related to a group of Iranian nationals accused of working with the country’s military to launch ransomware attacks against hundreds of American hospitals, governments, nonprofits and businesses. The Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) said the hackers had […]

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