Amiri, 34, back in UK after Iran’s supreme court overturned 2019 conviction and 10-year prison sentence An Iranian woman who worked for the British Council has been freed from detention in Evin prison and returned to the UK after being acquitted of spy…
Baktash Abtin, dissident Iranian poet, dies of Covid on prison furlough
Abtin’s death was ‘aided and abetted’ by the Iran’s government, says US human rights group PEN AmericaThe dissident Iranian poet and filmmaker Baktash Abtin has died of Covid-19 in hospital after being released on a furlough from prison where he was in…
Canadian court awards $107m to families of Iran plane crash victims
Civil lawsuit was filed against Iran and other officials the family members believe were to blame for the incidentA court in Ontario, Canada, has awarded C$107m ($83.94m), plus interest, to the families of six people who died when the Iranian Revolutio…
‘Borderless’ crypto networks wrestle with state sanction compliance
Crypto companies may be choosing to avoid marginalized communities rather than devising strategic ways to include them.
Iran nuclear deal pulled back from brink of collapse as talks resume in Vienna
Cautious optimism as Tehran revises its position after pressure from Russia and ChinaEfforts to revive the Iran nuclear deal have been hauled back from the brink of collapse as Tehran revised its stance after pressure from Russia and China and clear wa…
イランのハッカーによる米大統領選の情報操作、その“実行犯”の起訴で明らかになった手口
2020年の米大統領選挙を前に極右グループをかたって脅迫メールの送信などの情報操作を試みていたとして、ふたりのイラン人が起訴された。ほかにも投票人登録データベースへの侵入やメディア企業へのハッキングなどの疑いもあり、その幅広い工作活動の詳細が起訴状から明らかになっている。
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Hackers backed by Iran are targeting US critical infrastructure, US warns
Vulnerabilities already patched by Microsoft and Fortinet are being exploited en masse.
US says Iran-backed hackers are now targeting organizations with ransomware
The U.S. government, along with counterparts in Australia and the U.K, have warned that Iranian state-backed hackers are targeting U.S. organizations in critical infrastructure sectors — in some cases with ransomware. The rare warning linking Iran with ransomware landed in a joint advisory Wednesday, issued by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal […]
Internet shutdowns are a political weapon. It’s time to disarm.
Scott Carpenter Contributor Share on Twitter Scott Carpenter is Jigsaw’s Director of Policy and International Engagement. Prior to Google, Carpenter served as the Keston Family Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and as the U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of Democracy and Human Rights. Authoritarian governments from twenty-one […]
Iran says more than 120kg of uranium enriched to 20%
Announcement comes amid signs Tehran may be open to resuming stalled talks on 2015 nuclear dealIran has amassed more than 120kg of 20% enriched uranium, well above the level agreed to in the 2015 deal with world powers, the head of the country’s atomic…