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Al Jazeera Staff

US sanctions affiliates of Iran’s IRGC for ‘malicious’ cyber acts

Tensions between Tehran and Washington continue to simmer as the two nations struggle to find a way back to the 2015 nuclear deal [File: Lisi Niesner/Reuters]

The United States has imposed sanctions on 10 individuals and two entities that it says are linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and are involved in “malicious” cyber actions, including ransomware activity.

In a statement on Wednesday, the US Department of the Treasury accused the “group of Iran-based malicious cyber actors” of compromising networks based in the US and other nations since at least 2020.

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