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U.S. Indicts 7 Iranians in Cyberattacks on Banks and a Dam
(New York Times) David E. Sanger - The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday unsealed an indictment against seven computer specialists who regularly worked for Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, charging that they carried out cyberattacks on dozens of American banks and tried to take over the controls of a small dam in a suburb of New York. Intelligence experts have long speculated that the cyberactions directed at four dozen financial institutions - including JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Capital One and PNC Bank - were intended to be retaliation for an American-led cyberattack on Iran's main nuclear enrichment plant which employed the Stuxnet virus. It is doubtful that any of the named Iranians will ever appear in an American courtroom. But the administration argues that such indictments make it difficult for those who are indicted to travel, for fear of extradition.