Ministry of Intelligence and Security
The Ministry of Intelligence and Security appears in Iran’s cyberwar on American banks as one of the two Iranian state sponsors Rafe Pilling names for cyber operations emanating from Iran. The other named sponsor is the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
The episode does not provide a separate institutional history of the ministry. Its role in the wiki is to anchor Iran-Linked Cyber Operations alongside the IRGC, including activity described in the episode as DDoS, website compromise, phishing, vulnerability scanning, data theft, leak campaigns, and industrial-control targeting.
Connections
- Iran - state context.
- Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps - paired sponsor named in the episode.
- Rafe Pilling and Sophos - source of the attribution in the Marketplace Tech interview.
- Iran-Linked Cyber Operations, Cyber Data Theft and Leak Operations, and Industrial Control System Cyber Risk - cyber-operation concepts connected to the sponsor frame.