{"id":70410,"date":"2018-03-28T07:00:23","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T07:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/us-busts-massive-iranian-hacking-scheme-4\/"},"modified":"2018-03-28T07:00:23","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T07:00:23","slug":"us-busts-massive-iranian-hacking-scheme-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/us-busts-massive-iranian-hacking-scheme-4\/","title":{"rendered":"US busts massive Iranian hacking scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The U.S. Justice Department on Friday revealed charges against an Iranian hacking ring that prosecutors say spent years pilfering research and documents from over 300 universities worldwide as well as several U.S. government agencies.<\/p>\n<p>Geoffrey Berman, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, in a statement called it a \u201cmassive and brazen cyberassault\u201d and \u201cone of the largest state-sponsored hacking campaigns ever prosecuted\u201d by U.S. officials.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Justice Department <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/nine-iranians-charged-conducting-massive-cyber-theft-campaign-behalf-islamic-revolutionary\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">said countries affected included<\/a> EU members Denmark, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden and the U.K.<\/p>\n<p>The case is the second time the U.S. Justice Department has indicted hackers for intrusions on behalf of the Iranian government, coming almost exactly two years after DOJ indicted seven Iranians for a series of coordinated cyberattacks against the U.S. financial sector and for infiltrating a New York dam in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>But Fridays charges represent the takedown of a broader \u2014 and more purposeful \u2014 digital theft campaign.<\/p>\n<p>DOJ specifically targeted the Iran-based Mabna Institute, which it says was founded in 2013 \u201cto assist Iranian universities and scientific and research organizations in stealing access to non-Iranian scientific resources.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Over the course of four years, prosecutors say, hackers working for the Mabna Institute stole at least 31 terabytes of data from 144 American universities, totaling $3.4 billion in intellectual property. The group also cracked into 176 foreign universities, DOJ said.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond universities, the Iranians hit five U.S. government agencies, including the state governments in Hawaii and Indiana, as well as the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which oversees the energy industry, and the Department of Labor.<\/p>\n<p>The group also infiltrated the United Nations and the United Nations Childrens Fund, DOJ said.<\/p>\n<p>In total, prosecutors indicted nine Iranians for participating in the scheme, which continued until at least December 2017, according to a release.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Over those years, the indicted Mabna hackers breached the email accounts of roughly 8,000 professors.<\/p>\n<p>The hackers conducted \u201cmany\u201d of the intrusions \u201con behalf of\u201d Irans Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, \u201cas well as other Iranian government and university clients,\u201d according to DOJ.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe hackers targeted innovations and intellectual property from our countrys greatest minds,\u201d Berman said.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Treasury Department also slapped sanctions on the Mabna Institute and the nine charged individuals.<\/p>\n<p>While none of the charged hackers have been detained, Berman said the indictments would restrict their lives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only way they will see the outside world is through their computer screens, but stripped of their greatest asset \u2014 anonymity,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><em>Laurens Cerulus contributed reporting.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>CLARIFICATION: The case is the second time the U.S. Justice Department has indicted hackers who conducted intrusions of behalf of the Iranian government. 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