Overview

• Hackers infiltrated multiple IRIB channels on June 18, broadcasting messages that criticized the regime’s spending priorities and urged citizens to protest.
• Predatory Sparrow claimed a cyberheist on Nobitex that moved over $90 million into wallets with anti-IRGC slogans and announced a separate attack on Bank Sepah.
• Ayatollah Ali Khamenei pledged ‘irreparable damage’ to the United States if it carries out strikes on Iranian soil.
• President Trump is deliberating authorization of US strikes against Iran’s nuclear sites but has not reached a final decision.
• Security experts view the intrusions as part of an intensifying cyberwarfare campaign in the broader Israel-Iran confrontation.