Western intelligence warns of Iranian cyber threats targeting dissidents

The United States, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands have warned that Iranian spyware is being used to hunt dissidents living in the West. Iran is “almost certainly” using cyber operations to target Iranian critics of the regime, intelligence agencies from the trio of countries cautioned on Tuesday. In coordinated advisories, the FBI in the US, Britain’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and the Netherlands’ AIVD intelligence service all repeated the same warning. “The details of this cyber ⁠campaign reveal how Iran ruthlessly uses digital surveillance in pursuit of its aim to repress critics of the regime, stealing emails and messages and accessing devices,” said Paul Chichester, the director of Britain’s NCSC.