The Swedish Prosecutor’s Workplace has introduced {that a} preliminary investigation carried out with the Swedish Safety Service (Säpo) has concluded that the Iranian state, by way of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), carried out a particular operation towards targets in Sweden. Hackers allegedly breached a Swedish firm that runs a significant SMS service final summer time and despatched out 15,000 messages calling for “revenge towards Quran burners.”
“By the investigation, we’ve been in a position to set up the identities of the Iranian hackers who carried out the intense data breach,” Mats Ljungqvist, senior prosecutor for the Prosecutor’s Workplace, mentioned in a press launch.
“We have now succeeded in breaking this down on the corresponding particular person stage and may then join it to the Revolutionary Guard, which in flip is straight linked to the Iranian regime,” mentioned Fredrik Hallström, operations supervisor at Säpo, to the information company TT.
