FBI advisory details Iran-based group assisting ransomware actors, supporting government interests

The FBI, CISA and the Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center have released an advisory on Iran-backed threat actors who are working with ransomware groups to extort critical infrastructure entities and are separately supporting government interests by stealing data from other nations.

“The FBI assesses a significant percentage of these threat actors’ operations against US organizations are intended to obtain and develop network access to then collaborate with ransomware affiliate actors to deploy ransomware,” according to the Wednesday advisory...