{"id":171068,"date":"2023-09-01T10:25:29","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T15:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/iran-spyware-breached-and-exposed-by-ghostsec"},"modified":"2023-09-01T10:25:29","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T15:25:29","slug":"iran-spyware-breached-and-exposed-by-ghostsec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/iran-spyware-breached-and-exposed-by-ghostsec","title":{"rendered":"Iran Spyware Breached and Exposed by GhostSec"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/iran-spyware-breached-and-exposed-by-ghostsec2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This post is also available in: <a href=\"https:\/\/i-hls.com\/he\/archives\/120654\" class=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:inline; margin: 0;\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i-hls.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/sitepress-multilingual-cms\/res\/flags\/he.png\" alt=\"he\" title=\"\u05e2\u05d1\u05e8\u05d9\u05ea\"> \u05e2\u05d1\u05e8\u05d9\u05ea (Hebrew)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The GhostSec cybergang claims to have breached the FANAP Behnama software, exposing 20GB of data including face recognition and motion detection systems it says are used by the Iranian government to monitor and track its people.<\/p>\n<p>Now the group says it intends to make the data public, \u201cin the interests of the Iranian people, but also in the interests of protecting the privacy of each and every one of us.\u201d Cybersecurity analyst Cyberint commented on the group\u2019s statement, saying that while GhostSec\u2019s actions align with hacktivist principles, they also position themselves as advocates for human rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is also available in: \u05e2\u05d1\u05e8\u05d9\u05ea (Hebrew) The GhostSec cybergang claims to have breached the FANAP Behnama software, exposing 20GB of data including face recognition and motion detection systems it says are used by the Iranian government to monitor and track its people. Now the group says it intends to make the data public, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}