The recent downing over Syria of an Iranian drone that turned out to have been modeled on captured U.S. technology confirmed what intelligences services and their partners have been saying for years: Iran is actively stealing western technological know-how and fashioning tools of repression and terror.
A new report this month by the National Council of Resistance to Iran (NCRI) makes a sensational new claim that apps offered on Google Play and Apple’s App Store are being co-opted, mimicked or otherwise misappropriated by Iranian intelligence services to monitor the activities of their people and to export malware for cyberattacks against the American people.
This matters not only because it represents an escalation of domestic surveillance by the Iranian regime, but because the U.S. military and intelligence services are assessing who is developing the most potent cyber-threats to America.
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