Nicole Perlroth
speaker
1,851 appearances
14 recordings
2 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 14 Jul
Nicole Perlroth’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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If its previous attacks are any indication, its primary motive isn't just espionage, it's retaliation and destruction.
Also blamed on Iran, recent hits on Saudi Arabia's state oil company Aramco and Qatar's natural gas producer Roscos, that disabled 30,000 computers entirely.
Iran has a long history of destructive cyber attacks.
Saudi Aramco in 2012, Sands Casino in 2013, two attacks that paralyzed these companies.
And this year, Iran's hackers resurfaced with the same destructive playbook, this time aimed at a major U.S.
medical equipment company, Stryker.
The IT worker playbook looks very different in Iran's hands.
And what's troubling is that investigators are starting to see North Koreans actually recruit Iranians to their IT worker scheme.
Here's Barney again.
Even in some of the recruitment pitches that you see North Korea doing, they actually have verbiage where they talk about, hey, we're both sanctioned.
We're both in this struggle bus together.
I need money.
You need money.
Why don't we work together?
And in the direct collection efforts that we see across our partners, they're seeing it too.
Iranian facilitator this, Iranian facilitator that.
It could be a laptop farm.
It could be an identity brokerage.
But you are seeing groups, North Korea uniting the criminal underworld at times.
Even the Nigerian Prince scammers are at it.
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