The hit list surfaced after Charming Kitten mistakenly left one of its servers open to the internet last month. The assessment was backed by others who have tracked Charming Kitten. Calls to Iranian officials were not returned late Wednesday, the beginning of the weekend in the country. Iranian hackers in turn are blamed for denial of service assaults on American banks and computer-wrecking cyberattacks in Saudi Arabia, Iran’s regional archrival. That suggested “a fairly scattershot attempt,” said Clay Stevenson, a former Treasury official who now consults on sanctions and was himself targeted by Charming Kitten.

Source: Huffington Post December 13, 2018 11:26 UTC