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How a Group of Israel-Linked Hackers Has Pushed the Limits of Cyberwar


From repeatedly crippling thousands of gas stations to setting a steel mill on fire, Predatory Sparrow’s offensive hacking has now targeted Iranians with some of history's most aggressive cyberattacks.

Based on footage from a surveillance camera inside the plant, the giant vessel was several times taller than the two workers in gray uniforms and hardhats standing nearby, likely large enough to carry well over a hundred tons of liquid steel heated to several thousand degrees Fahrenheit. A close watch of the video, in fact, reveals something like the opposite: Eight seconds after the steel mill catastrophe begins, two workers can be seen running out from underneath the ladle assembly, through the shower of embers, just feet away from the torrent of flaming liquid metal. In fact, Predatory Sparrow, which typically refers to itself in public statements by the Farsi translation of its name, Gonjeshke Darande, has been tightly focused on Iran for years, long before Israel's war with Hamas further raised tensions between the two countries.

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