JUST IN: Three Iranian nationals charged in hacking campaign targeting health care centers, power companies and transportation services in the U.S. and abroad.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation seal is displayed outside FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C., Feb. 2, 2018.Three Iranian nationals attempted to hack into hundreds of computers in the U.S. and around the world, demanding, and sometimes getting, a ransom, according to an indictment unsealed Wednesday.
Once they gained access to an organization or company's software, they would use a program known as BitLocker to encrypt data on their victims' systems and demand a ransom either by threatening to release stolen data or keeping the data encrypted unless they were paid -- at times making demands for hundreds of thousands of dollars, according to the court filing.
The hackers are believed to be "actively targeting" a broad range of entities across multiple critical infrastructure sectors inside the U.S., Australia, Canada and the U.K., the bulletin will say, and have even targeted victims within Iran. Specifically in the U.S, the IRGC-affiliated actors carried out ransomware attacks against a police department, a regional transportation system, a municipal government and a U.S. aerospace company.
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