Parliament has tasked the Interior Ministry with building a registry of foreign activities and partnerships. The system will give security agencies access to records of academic, media, and professional relationships and make some activities subject to approval.

Goorkan collects information on people who oppose the Islamic Republic and publishes dossiers about them, while threatening them with “punishment.” At the same time, the website’s address appeared on a digital sign along Los Angeles’s Interstate 405. It remains unclear who posted the message or how they accessed the sign’s system.

A new Iran-Russia agreement suggests the normalization of Internet fragmentation and state sovereignty in cyberspace through international institutions.

A new warning from the UK, the US, and the Netherlands details, one that begins by gaining a target’s trust and can end with stolen communications, audio surveillance, and the publication of personal information for further harassment.

Alaj is recruiting people to report Iranian Instagram users living abroad. Its promise—“You identify them. We take action”—raises urgent questions about who receives that information and what happens next.

Iran’s proposed “anti-infiltration” law would place ordinary contact with foreign universities, media outlets, civil-society groups and professional organisations under security scrutiny—even though Iran’s own Constitution says lawful freedoms cannot be taken away in the name of protecting national independence.

Leaked documents linked to Charming Kitten describe Saqeb as a modular Windows surveillance platform built for persistent access, remote commands, keylogging, Telegram session theft, Firefox credential harvesting, and file destruction.

Two defensive simulations of MuddyWater operations show that the power of the Islamic Republic’s hackers does not lie in any single mysterious technology. It comes from combining close knowledge of the target, the exploitation of trust, and a handful of relatively simple technical tools.

Chabokran, or the malicious “Kar” app, uses the promise of employment to steal SMS messages and one-time passwords.

The “Countering Infiltration” bill would make media, academic, and civil-society contacts with the outside world subject to authorization by the Ministry of Intelligence and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Intelligence Organization.

A leaked video offers a rare look inside Kashef, a system used by the IRGC’s Ministry of Intelligence to turn identity and phone records, device IDs, location and travel data—even visits to diplomatic sites—into searchable profiles of individuals and their networks.

A practical guide to citizens’ legal rights during surveillance and wiretapping, searches of phones and computers, interrogations, and the use of personal data in IRGC’s courts