The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Wednesday charged three Iranian nationals for alleged cyber attacks targeting U.S. infrastructure and local governments.
An indictment (pdf) that was unsealed in a federal court alleged that Mansour Ahmadi, Ahmad Khatibi Aghda, and Amir Hossein Nickaein Ravari engaged in a series of ransomware schemes starting in October 2020 to hack computer systems across the United States, Israel, Russia, the United Kingdom, Iran, and elsewhere.