US DOJ Seizes Domain Names Used By Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps

By   ISBuzz Team
Writer , Information Security Buzz | Oct 08, 2020 04:23 am PST

As you may be aware, The United States has seized 92 domain names that were unlawfully used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to engage in a global disinformation campaign, announced by the Department of Justice yesterday.

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John Hultquist
John Hultquist , Director of Intelligence Analysis
October 8, 2020 12:22 pm

The DOJ has just linked Iranian information operations that FireEye publicly reported in 2018 to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Iran’s aggressive security service. The IRGC is very comfortable with asymmetric tools and they have increasingly adopted cyber capabilities as a means to disrupt and manipulate their enemies abroad. Iran has become a prolific actor in the information operations space and similar to their cyberattack capability, they have evolved over a series of brash operations.

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