Pro-Israel Hacking Group Claims to Disrupt Iran's Bank Sepah

Disruption of Country's Biggest Bank Comes as Israel-Iran War Intensifies Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • June 17, 2025

A pro-Israel hacking group claims to have disrupted a major Iranian bank as hostilities between the two countries raged into their fifth day.

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The hacking group Gonjeshke Darande - Persian for Predatory Sparrow - said in a Tuesday morning post to social network X that it "conducted cyberattacks which destroyed the data of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' Bank Sepah," working in tandem with Iranian nationals.

The claim couldn't be verified - but the website for government-owned Bank Sepah, based in Tehran, remained inaccessible Tuesday afternoon. Private Iranian news agency Fararu reported the bank confirmed that its infrastructure was disrupted Tuesday by a cyberattack, leading to bank services being offline ...