Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2022-06-02 00:00:00
Affected organization: Tehran municipality
Affected country: Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Industry: Public Administration
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Sensor
Motive: Protest
Actor: People's Mujahedin of Iran (MEK)
Actor type: Hacktivist
Actor country: Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Description: The exiled group People's Mujahedin of Iran (MEK) claims responsibility for a cyber attack that took temporarily control of dozens of websites run by Tehran's municipality and around 5,000 of the capital's surveillance cameras.