Charleston startup helps uncover Iranian hacking scheme, among largest state-backed attacks ever
Iranian hackers stole academic research worth billions of dollars from hundreds of universities around the world — until a Charleston cybersecurity firm caught onto the scheme.
In the process, the company, PhishLabs, helped uncover what federal authorities are describing as “one of the largest state-sponsored hacking campaigns ever prosecuted.”
PhishLabs, a startup headquartered on Charleston’s upper peninsula, said Monday that it came across the Iranian hacking campaign in December. That’s when it found two websites chock full of web pages mimicking universities.
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