Iranian hacker group says it will pause cyberattacks on US after ceasefire, but not Israel
A hacker group that has taken credit for Iranian cyberattacks against the U.S. said it will pause attacks due to the ceasefire with the Trump administration.
The group, Handala, which the FBI believes is a front for Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security, has taken credit for a cyberattack on the Michigan medical tech company Stryker and leaked old emails from FBI Director Kash Patel’s hacked Gmail account.
Handala suggested that top leaders in the Iranian government directed them to stop boasting about hacks targeting the U.S., an instruction that appeared to be in response to the ceasefire.
“According to the orders from the highest leadership of the Resistance Axis, we have currently postponed overt confrontation with the United States, but the world already knows our capability to penetrate and strike at the very core of American infrastructure,” the group said on Telegram.
But Handala said it would keep targeting other enemies, including Israel.
“The cyber war did not begin with the military conflict, and it will not end with any military ceasefire,” the post reads. “Handala, at full force, continues its cyber operations against the infrastructure of the Zionist regime.”
The FBI has dubbed the group’s work as “psychological operations.”
Earlier this week, the FBI and other U.S. agencies said they were “urgently warning” U.S. organizations about “ongoing cyber exploitation of internet-connected operational technology devices.”
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