{"id":48383,"date":"2022-09-10T13:00:10","date_gmt":"2022-09-10T13:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/uncle-sam-sanctions-irans-intel-agency-over-albanian-cyberattack\/"},"modified":"2022-09-10T13:00:10","modified_gmt":"2022-09-10T13:00:10","slug":"uncle-sam-sanctions-irans-intel-agency-over-albanian-cyberattack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/uncle-sam-sanctions-irans-intel-agency-over-albanian-cyberattack\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncle Sam sanctions Iran’s intel agency over Albanian cyberattack"},"content":{"rendered":"

The US Treasury Department has issued sactions against Iran’s intelligence agency in response to that country’s cyberattack against Albania and other “cyber-enabled activities against the United States and its allies.”<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, NATO ally Albania cut<\/a> its diplomatic relations with Iran after blaming a July cyberattack<\/a> that hit its government infrastructure on Iranian state-sponsored attackers. At the time, the White House National Security Council pledged<\/a> to “take further action to hold Iran accountable for actions that threaten the security of a US ally and set a troubling precedent for cyberspace.”<\/p>\n

Today’s sanctions prohibit American businesses and individuals from conducting any transactions with Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) and its Minister of Intelligence, as well as any business more than 50 percent owned by the entities.<\/p>\n