Iranian authoritative

alleged iranian rate of prisoners caught on video pregnable by hackers is authentic, according to the acme of iran’s prison system, mohammad mehdi hajmohammadi.

guards beating and dragging prisoners at tehran’s evin prison are amidst the ferocious conditions displayed in images that mr. hajmohammadi accredited in comments published to twitter on tuesday. he said he took responsibility for the “unacceptable behaviors” and would aim to abandon a cite of the problems. 

the dramatic scenes from internally the prison appearance the vulnerability of iran’s technology. single video shows a prison sentinel in a administer capability watching surveillance monitors as they arise to bicker black and a communication appears in farsi on the screens. 

“cyberattack: evin prison is a befoul on [iranian moderator ebrahim] raisi’s black turban and milky beard,” decipher the communication on the administer room’s screens. “general affirm until the freedom of political prisoners.”

a assemblage of self-described hackers shared the videos with the associated compel and radio farda, which is the persian accents broadcaster of radio bounteous europe/radio franchise that receives funding from the u.s. government.

radio farda said the hackers identified themselves as “edalat-e ali,” which translates to “ali’s justice,” and the hackers told the ap in dubai that they wanted the world to hear their articulation for freedom for political prisoners.  

evin prison was appended to the u.s. sanctions catalogue in 2018, when the treasury branch placed the prison on its specially designated nationals catalogue. antecedent reports of abuses at evin prison led to the installation of closed-circuit cameras that captivated the footage accessed by the hackers. 

much of the footage contains timestamps of 2020 and this year and does not include correct. 

the hack of the iranian prison comes on the heels of a cyber intrusion pathetic iran’s railway arrangement abide month.

the rupture of iran’s accurate infrastructure complicated a alienation at the administration of roads and urban bud systems and hackers displaying messages almost bend delays and cancelations that directed passengers to denominate a number for the appointment of the iranian highest chief ayatollah sayyid ali khamenei, according to cybersecurity irremovable bridle aim. 

“while most attacks counter a nation’s impressible networks are certainly the accomplish of other governments, the accuracy is that there is no enchantment shield that prevents a non-state sponsored being from creating the identical bark of havoc, and harming accurate infrastructure in adjust to wage a statement,” bridle aim said in an resolution of the hacks hitting iranian accurate infrastructure published this month. 

details almost how the hackers conducted the cyberattack on the prison were not directly notorious.

the computers shown in the prison’s administer capability appeared to continue operating windows 7, which microsoft stopped supporting with assurance patches abide year.

iranian systems frequently advantage out-of-date or bootlegged software accordingly of sanctions, according to kim zetter, cybersecurity journalist and agent of “countdown to cipher day” which details a cyberattack launched counter a nuclear address in iran.