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Inside the Cyberwar Unleashed by Israel's 'Predatory Sparrow' Against Iran
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On Tuesday June 17, this group of so-called 'activists' blocked Bank Sepah, which manages the Iranian army's accounts. This is not their first strike against Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's regime.
Iran is not safe on any front. Just days after the launch of Israel's military Operation Rising Lion, in which Mossad agents and Tsahal fighter jets joined forces to strike at the heart of Iran's nuclear program, Israel entered the field of computer warfare, calling on a group of hackers with alleged links to the government.
At 11 a.m. (French time) on June 17, the Sepah bank, one of Iran's main state-owned banks (which manages the accounts and investments of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards and the Iranian army) announced the 'disruption' of its services. Many of its customers are then unable to make online transfers or withdraw their money from ATMs. The scale of the attack was then quite unsuspected: the Fars news agency simply stated that the problem 'should be solved within a few hours'.
The attack was claimed a few minutes later on the social network X by an activist group, Gonjeshke Darande ('Predatory Sparrow' in Persian). The account's logo depicts a small, round bird, visibly angry…
