Anonymous: Data from 407 Surveillance Cameras on Tehran Streets Hacked
The hacker group Anonymous claims that in support of protests in Iran, it has hacked the data of hundreds of surveillance cameras in Tehran and disabled these cameras.
Since the start of the current protests in Iran, this group has carried out extensive cyber attacks against the websites of the Islamic Republic government, including hacking the websites of the ministries of oil, economy and finance, and culture and Islamic guidance.
Anonymous’s Twitter account announced on Sunday evening that it had hacked “complete information on 407 surveillance cameras across Tehran city,” because these cameras help the Islamic Republic suppress protests.
Anonymous added that “by disabling these cameras in any way, we are providing the greatest assistance to the freedom-loving people of Iran.”
This tweet was accompanied by an image of a list of Tehran’s surveillance cameras that Anonymous claims to have hacked, including cameras at “Azadi-Beheshti,” “Azadi-Tawhid,” “Shariati-Sadr,” “Quds Square,” and “Valiaser-Pasian.”
This is not the first time Anonymous has reported hacking surveillance cameras in Iran.
In late Shahrivar, this hacker group had announced that in addition to websites related to Ali Khamenei, the leader of the Islamic Republic, and the presidency, it had also hacked more than a thousand CCTV cameras inside Iran.
In early Mehr, Anonymous also hacked the website of the Islamic Consultative Assembly, exposing some details of representatives including their mobile phone numbers, and called on Iranian protesters to contact the representatives and ask them “why they support the dictator.”
A few days later, hackers from this group, by hacking the notification sending plugin “Najva,” a notification service provider in Iran, successfully managed to call a very large number of users to protests against the Islamic Republic through a message in Persian.
Many online stores and some state news agencies are customers of Najva’s services.
In addition to the Anonymous group, other hacker groups have also hacked surveillance cameras in Iran in recent months and years.
In mid-Khordad, the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization, one of the opposition groups of the Islamic Republic outside the country, announced that members of this organization, from a group called “Uprising Until Overthrow,” had hacked more than five thousand monitoring cameras in the Tehran Municipality and put them out of service.
Last year, a cyber group called “Adalet Ali” hacked the security cameras of Evin Prison and published images showing prison guards mistreating prisoners.
While Mohammad Mehdi Hajjmohammadi, the then head of Iran’s Prison Organization, acknowledged the authenticity of the published images and apologized for these “unacceptable behaviors,” Mohammad Mossadegh, the first deputy of Iran’s judicial branch, said that many of the images showing torture, mistreatment, and beating of prisoners in Evin Prison “are fabricated and have nothing to do with the prison at all.”
Also, despite promises made for legal prosecution of those responsible for torturing prisoners, no reports of their possible prosecution have been released to date.
Source: Radio Farda
