Iran as an Emerging “Cyber Power”?
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Iran, United States of America, Gulf States, Stuxnet, cyber activityAbsztrakt
Iran is continuously developing its cyber capabilities to carry out increasingly sophisticated attacks against its regional and global adversaries, and to suppress certain social and political activities. Enforcers with varying levels of sophistication, acting on behalf of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, are engaged in a wide range of offensive cyber activities, including website content alteration, spear phishing, distributed denial of service attacks, theft of personally identifiable information or, in worse cases, the use of destructive malware, social media influence operations, and cyber-attacks with potential physical consequences against critical infrastructure.
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