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Cyber retaliation from Iran is a problem for U.S. companies — ‘It’s in the hands of a 19-year-old hacker in a Telegram room,’ ex-NSA operative says

  • Amanda Gerut--Fortune
  • published date: 2026-03-01 21:54:52 UTC

The bigger threat to U.S. companies may not be a data breach, but a coordinated campaign designed to make your employees stop trusting everything they see and hear.

As strikes hit Tehran on Saturday morning, millions of Iranians got a strange push notification on their phones. The BadeSaba Calendar prayer app, which has more than 5 million downloads, had been co… [+6397 chars]