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, through the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), carried out a particular operation in opposition to targets in Sweden. Hackers allegedly breached a Swedish firm that runs a serious SMS service final summer season and despatched out 15,000 messages calling for “revenge in opposition to Quran burners.”
“By the investigation, we have now been capable of set up the identities of the Iranian hackers who carried out the intense information breach,” Mats Ljungqvist, senior prosecutor for the Prosecutor’s Workplace, mentioned in a press launch.
“We’ve succeeded in breaking this down on the corresponding particular person degree and may then join it to the Revolutionary Guard, which in flip is immediately linked to the Iranian regime,” mentioned Fredrik Hallström, operations supervisor at Säpo, to the information company TT.
