Iran Increases Cyberattacks on the U.S. Amid Tensions, DHS Says

State-backed Iranian hackers have stepped up cyberattacks on the U.S., according to the Department of Homeland Security’s cyberagency.

There has been a “recent rise in malicious cyberactivity directed at United States industries and government agencies by Iranian regime actors and proxies,” Christopher Krebs, the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, said Saturday in a statement.