The United States Treasury Department announced on Tuesday in a statement that it is imposing sanctions on two companies and four individuals over "malicious cyber activity."
"Iranian cyber actors continue to target the United States using a wide range of malicious cyber activity, from conducting ransomware attacks against critical infrastructure to conducting spear phishing and other social engineering campaigns against individuals, companies, and government entities. The IRGC-CEC, one of the Iranian government organizations behind malicious cyber activity, works through a series of front companies to target the United States and several other countries," the Treasury stated.
The Treasury mentioned that although these actions didn't shake up any critical services, access to critical infrastructure systems that is unauthorized could lead to "actions that harm the public."
