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Asharq Al-Awsat
Asharq Al-Awsat
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Asharq Al-Awsat

US Charges Three Iranians for Ransomware Attacks on Women’s Shelter, Businesses

A silhouetted Iranian woman walks past an anti-US wall painting on the wall of former US embassy in the capital city of Tehran, Iran, 05 September 2022. (EPA)

Three Iranians have been charged with trying to extort hundreds of thousands of dollars from organizations in the United States, Europe, Iran and Israel, including a domestic violence shelter, by hacking in to their computer systems, US officials said on Wednesday.

Other targets included local US governments, regional utilities in Mississippi and Indiana, accounting firms and a state lawyers' association, according to charges filed by the US Justice Department.

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