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Iranian hacker accused of draining 31TB from university inboxes extradited to the US

ID: 805acf4c-bfc1-587b-8efc-d9914a322e8c

STIX ID: report--805acf4c-bfc1-587b-8efc-d9914a322e8c

Feed Name: Security Affairs

Threat Score
88/100

Date Published: 2026-10-05

Date Updated: 2026-10-07

Author: Pierluigi Paganini

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**Executive summary:** Amir Barati, an Iranian–Turkish hacker accused of participating in an IRGC-linked campaign (Mabna), has been arrested and is being extradited to the US after prosecutors allege the group used spearphishing and stolen credentials between 2013–2017 to compromise roughly 8,000 professor accounts and exfiltrate at least 31 TB of academic and research data from hundreds of universities and companies, causing estimated damages of $3.4 billion.

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