{"id":1638236,"date":"2022-09-10T01:19:33","date_gmt":"2022-09-10T05:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1638236"},"modified":"2022-09-10T01:19:38","modified_gmt":"2022-09-10T05:19:38","slug":"us-sanctions-iran-intelligence-over-albania-cyberattack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-sanctions-iran-intelligence-over-albania-cyberattack\/","title":{"rendered":"US Sanctions Iran Intelligence Over Albania Cyberattack"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fus-sanctions-iran-intelligence-over-albania-cyberattack%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1638236&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>WASHINGTON\u2014The U.S. government on Friday imposed sanctions on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-iran\">Iran<\/a>\u2019s intelligence agency and its leadership in response to malicious cyberattacks on Albanian government computer systems in July.<\/p>\n<p>The Treasury Department\u2019s Office of Foreign Assets Control designated Iran\u2019s Ministry of Intelligence and Security and Esmail Khatib, who heads the ministry, for what it said were cyber-related activities against the U.S. and its allies.<\/p>\n<p>Albania, a NATO member, cut diplomatic ties with Iran and expelled its embassy staff this week over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-cyberattack\">cyberattack<\/a>. It was the first known case of a country cutting diplomatic relations over a cyberattack.<\/p>\n<p>The Albanian government has accused Iran of carrying out the July 15 attack, which temporarily shut down numerous Albanian government digital services and websites.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft, which assisted Albania in investigating the cyberattack, said in a blog post Thursday that it was moderately confident the hackers belong to a group that has been publicly linked to Iran\u2019s Ministry of Intelligence and Security.<\/p>\n<p>It said the attackers were observed operating out of Iran, used tools previously used by known Iranian attackers, and had previously targeted \u201cother sectors and countries\u201d consistent with Iranian interests. The destructive malware deployed was also previously used by a \u201cknown Iranian actor,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIran\u2019s cyber attack against Albania disregards norms of responsible peacetime State behavior in cyberspace,\u201d Brian Nelson, Treasury\u2019s under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will not tolerate Iran\u2019s increasingly aggressive cyber activities targeting the United States or our allies and partners,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Since at least 2007, Iran\u2019s intelligence agency and its proxies have been accused of conducting cyber operations targeting public and private entities around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Treasury, which uses an Obama-era <a href=\"https:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/documents\/2015\/04\/02\/2015-07788\/blocking-the-property-of-certain-persons-engaging-in-significant-malicious-cyber-enabled-activities\">executive order<\/a> that targets people and entities that engage in malicious cyber activities as an authority to impose the sanctions, has been<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON\u2014The U.S. government on Friday imposed sanctions on Iran\u2019s intelligence agency and its leadership in response to malicious cyberattacks on Albanian government computer systems in July. The Treasury Department\u2019s Office of Foreign Assets Control designated Iran\u2019s Ministry of Intelligence and Security and Esmail Khatib, who heads the ministry, for what it said were cyber-related activities [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1638236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1638236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1638236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1638236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1638236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}