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U.S. Charges 17 Iranians in Mabna Institute Cyber-Theft Campaign

The U.S. Department of Justice unsealed a 14-count superseding indictment charging 17 Iranian nationals tied to the Tehran-based Mabna Institute with conducting a long-running cyber intrusion and theft campaign on behalf of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and other Iranian government and university clients. Prosecutors allege the operation, active since at least 2013, compromised more than 100,000 professors’ email accounts worldwide, including about 8,000 accounts across 144 U.S. universities and 178 foreign universities, and stole at least 31.5 terabytes of academic research, intellectual property, and email contents.