FBI seizes website tied to Iranian cyberattack on U.S. company, hacker group says
Source: NBC News
March 19, 2026, 2:21 PM EDT
The FBI appears to have seized the website of an Iran-linked hacker group that claimed responsibility for the only known significant cyberattack on a U.S. company since war between the countries started in February.
The site, which previously chronicled the group’s alleged exploits and hosted hacked files for download, on Tuesday was replaced with a boilerplate image with the logos of the Justice Department and FBI. The agencies didn’t reply to a request for comment.
“Law enforcement authorities determined this domain was used to conduct, facilitate, or support malicious cyber activities on behalf of, or in coordination with, a foreign state actor,” the site says.
The group, called Handala, is widely believed by American and Israeli cybersecurity experts who track it to be an operation by Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security. The U.S. government has not publicly tied it to a particular Iranian agency.Last week, Handala took credit for hacking Stryker, a Michigan-based, Fortune 300 medical tech company with offices around the world.
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