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Iran Is Raising Sophistication and Frequency of Cyberattacks
(New York Times) David E. Sanger and Nicole Perlroth - A new study of Iran's cyberactivities, to be released by Norse, a cybersecurity firm, and the American Enterprise Institute, concludes that Iran has greatly increased the frequency and skill of its cyberattacks over the past year. Norse traced thousands of attacks against American targets to hackers inside Iran. Frederick W. Kagan, who directs the institute's Critical Threats Project, argues that if sanctions against Iran are suspended under the proposed nuclear accord, Iran will be able to devote the revenue from improved oil exports to cyberweapons. U.S. officials have said that Iran attacked American banks in retaliation for sanctions and that it wiped out data on 30,000 computers at the oil giant Saudi Aramco in retaliation for the close Saudi ties with the U.S.