Facebook The espionage activities controlled by Iran have been exposed and stopped. As Mike Dvilyanski, the counterintelligence boss of the online organization, announced on Thursday, as part of this operation, approximately 200 accounts held with false identities in the online network have been deleted. These accounts are designed to steal data and information from employees in the defense and aerospace industries in the United States and Europe.
Supporters use Facebook to collect information about targeted people, lure them to visit sites other than Facebook, and infect their computers with spyware. It is difficult to assess how successful this action called “tortoiseshell” (tortoise shell) is. However, it has all the characteristics of the “resource rich” movement.
According to Dvilyanski, some spyware is said to have been developed by Mahak Rayan Afras in Tehran. Facebook experts said that the company has ties to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards.
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Iran has been repeatedly accused by US authorities and companies as the chief culprit of cyber attacks.The relationship between the United States and Iran has changed under the leadership of the former president Donald Trump Greatly deteriorated. Trump withdrew from the international nuclear agreement with Iran in 2018 and imposed large-scale sanctions on the country. In response, Tehran gradually withdrew from its obligations under the nuclear agreement.
The President of the United States, Joe Biden, who has been in office since January, is open to resuming the 2015 agreement, but negotiations are currently underway in Vienna. However, Biden made a prerequisite that Tehran fully fulfilled its obligations under the nuclear agreement. In turn, Iran uses the new version of the agreement as a condition for lifting US sanctions.
