INTERNATIONAL

POLITICS
BY:MANPREET KAUR SALUJA
 IRANIAN HACKERS FOUND WAY INTO
ENCRYPTED APPS
Iranian hackers, most likely employees or affiliates of the government, have
been running a vast cyberespionage operation equipped with surveillance tools
that can outsmart encrypted messaging systems.The operation not only targets
domestic dissidents, religious and ethnic minorities and antigovernment
activists abroad, but can also be used to spy on the general public inside Iran.
The hackers appeared to have a clear goal: stealing information about Iranian
opposition groups in Europe and the United States and spying on Iranians who
often use mobile applications to plan protests, according to the Miaan report.