Iranian hackers are targeting American weapons, US agencies warn

The US government is warning that Iranian-backed hackers are expanding their methods of targeting key American systems in order to cause chaos.

In mutual advice published on Tuesday, the FBI, the National Security Agency, the US cybersecurity agency CISA, and the US Department of Energy jointly warned that Iranian government hackers have been using Internet surveillance systems used in various sectors. This includes water and wastewater, electricity, and government offices. The agencies did not specify any specific targets, but said the hacks were intended to cause “disruption within the United States,” and have already caused “disruption of operations and loss of revenue.”

The hackers targeted supervisory control and supervisory control and acquisition (SCADA) systems, which are used to control and monitor industrial equipment and systems for critical operations, the agencies said. The agencies said that the hackers were able to use the information displayed on the device, and maliciously interact with the project files that store the device’s important configuration.

The agencies said the hacks targeting the most important assets are an increase in the tactics of Iranian hackers, possibly in response to the US-Israeli war with Iran, which began on February 28 with a plane attack that killed the country’s leader.

The advice also comes after US President Trump threatened Iran in a social media post earlier on Tuesday, writing, “All civilization will die tonight” as Iran has not changed to cooperate with the United States to open the Strait of Hormuz, the most important place for international shipping, at the end of the day.

Since the war, an A group kidnapped by the Iranian government called Handala It has been linked to a number of high-profile crimes, including the controversial hacking of the US Stryker drone, which saw thieves. away wipe thousands of staff tools using the company’s security tools.

The FBI recently accused Handala hackers extracting the contents of FBI director Kash Patel’s private email account.

Iran has also hit several US-owned and operated data centers across the region and missiles and aircraftcausing instability and disrupting cloud services across the region.