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A follow-up to: "Handala and the New Face of Iranian Cyber Warfare" If you read the last post, you already know where I land on Handala. I don't buy the idea that this is just a loose hacktivist crew freelancing online. It looks a lot more like a state-backed Iranian operation wearing a hacktivist mask.
The shot came at 3:30 a.m. Eastern. While most of the U.S. was asleep, more than 200,000 devices across 79 countries went dark. Laptops. Mobile phones. Medical workstations. On the Entra login page for one of the world's largest medical technology companies, employees were greeted by a symbol: the cartoon of a barefoot Palestinian child, arms crossed behind his back, staring at the horizon.
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