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Iran Blamed for Hack of French Magazine Charlie Hebdo

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Microsoft: Cyber-heist attributed to Iran's Neptunium, aka Emennet Pasargad. The gang boasted it had stolen and leaked more than 200,000 Charlie Hebdo subscribers' personal information. The stolen data, which included names, phone numbers and addresses, "could put the magazine's subscribers at risk"

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The Times

Iran blamed for hacking of Charlie Hebdo

Iran was behind the hacking of Charlie Hebdo after the French satirical magazine ran a competition to mock the country’s supreme leader, according to a secur

1 year ago·London, United Kingdom

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The Epoch Times

Microsoft: Iran Unit Behind Charlie Hebdo Hack-and-Leak Op

After the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo launched a cartoon contest to mock Iran’s ruling cleric, a state-backed Iranian cyber unit struck back with a hack-and-leak campaign that was designed to provoke fear with the claimed pilfering of a big subscriber database, Microsoft security researchers say. The FBI blames the same Iranian cyber operators, Emennet Pasargad, for an influence operation that sought to interfere in the 2020 U.S. pre…

1 year ago·New York, United States

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Raw Story

Microsoft says Iranians hacked France's Charlie Hebdo

US computing giant Microsoft said Friday that it had identified Iranian state actors as those behind the recent cyberattack on French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo.Clint Watts, the general manager of Microsoft's Digital Threat Analysis Center, said that the hackers, who called themselves "Holy Souls," were Iranian cybersecurity firm Emennet Pasargad.In early January Holy Souls announced they had obtained the personal information of more than…

1 year ago·United States

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VOA News

Iran Blamed for Hack of French Magazine Charlie Hebdo

An Iranian government-backed hacking team allegedly stole and leaked private customer data

1 year ago·United States

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Middle East Monitor

Iran behind hack of French magazine Charlie Hebdo, Microsoft says

An Iranian government-backed hacking team allegedly stole and leaked private customer data belonging to French satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo, security researchers at Microsoft said on Friday, Reut...

1 year ago·London, United Kingdom

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Stars and Stripes

Microsoft: Iran unit behind Charlie Hebdo hack-and-leak op

After the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo launched a cartoon contest to mock Iran's ruling cleric, a state-backed Iranian cyber unit struck back with a hack-and-leak campaign that was designed to provoke fear with the claimed pilfering of a big subscriber database, Microsoft security researchers say.

1 year ago·Washington, United States

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