Iranian-Trained Algerian Hackers Target Moroccan Business Website

The home page of the CGEM website presented after its hacking the Algerian flag followed by the message "No peace between systems". The hacking would be the work of the Iranian security services, indicate experts consulted by the daily Assabah, specifying that a group of Algerians recently underwent training provided by a team of Iranian security services in order to hack Moroccan sites.

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Iran is not new to this. According to experts, the company "Hexane Spirline" based in Tehran, has repeatedly tried to hack Moroccan sites and accounts on social networks. These cyberattacks have intensified during the months of June, September and October last year, adds the same source.

Faced with Morocco’s superiority in computer systems, an Algerian official had invited the Algerian security services to finance hacker groups who will be tasked with hacking Moroccan official sites to access information.