The US Department of Justice has unsealed an indictment accusing an Iranian national of a years-long campaign that compromised hundreds of thousands of accounts and attempting to infiltrate US defense contractors and multiple government agencies. It’s alleged [PDF] that Alireza Shafie Nasab and his co-conspirators, while doing business as a cybersecurity business called Mahak Rayan Afraz, were actually operating a criminal gang.

Source: The Register