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CYBER

Iranian Hacker Hysteria

CYBER

VICE

Tech News, News & Politics, Technology, News

4645 Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

If you’re at all plugged into the global news cycle, you’ll know the U.S. assassinated Iran’s General Qassem Soleimani, a commander in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and leader of the secretive Quds Force.

Since that night, experts have been wondering what the blowback from Tehran will be. Naturally, in the age of cyberwarfare, people are getting pretty worried about the threat of Iranian hackers, who, if you were to believe some newscasts, are practically hiding in your modem.

There are some real and some overblown threats from Iranian hackers now facing the U.S. In fact, the Department of Homeland Security issued a warning that it was logging increased cyberattacks emanating from the Iranian regime on American networks.

But how worried should we be?

On this week’s CYBER we have Motherboard reporter Joseph Cox who is already tracking alleged Iranian hackers defacing American websites, to discuss what Tehran’s hackers are actually capable of hacking.


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0:00.0

Tann, it's got the code it's going to launch.

0:09.0

It's a Unix system.

0:13.0

I know this.

0:15.0

It's all the files of the whole park.

0:17.0

It tells her everything.

0:19.0

Sir, he's uploading the virus.

0:21.6

The eagle one.

0:22.6

The package is being delivered.

0:25.6

If you're at all glued in to the global news cycle,

0:28.6

you'll know the US just assassinated shadowy Iranian general, Kassem Soleimani.

0:33.6

And since that night, experts have been racing around wondering what the blowback from Tehran will be.

0:39.3

Naturally, in the age of cyber, people are pretty hysterical about the threat of Iranian hackers,

0:44.3

who, if you were to believe some of the newscasts, are literally hiding in your modem.

0:49.3

Fact is, there are real and some overblown threats from Iranian hackers.

0:54.8

To break this down with me, we've got motherboard reporter Joseph Cox.

0:58.4

I'm Ben Maku, and this is cyber.

1:03.5

Okay, so Joseph, you know, Kassem Soleimani, this assassination, not even the cyber can avoid this,

1:11.9

because this is, obviously,

1:16.9

it's the biggest world news, but since it happened, lots of people wondering, what is the Iranian regime going to do? And of course, hackers came into it. Yeah, I mean, we haven't really

1:22.8

seen much from the Iranian government itself, at least publicly, when it comes to hacking.

1:28.1

But of course, people are worried about the potential threat and risk of it.

1:33.3

But some people are going a little bit over the top.

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