Smoke rises as Israel targets the notorious Evin Prison in north of Tehran, Iran, on June 23, 2025. Evin prison has been known as the place where Iran imprisons mostly political activists, dissidents and journalists. Media reports say that administrative building and the hospital of Evin prison have been damaged, and a number of families of inmates and prison staff have been killed and wounded. (Photo by Nikan / Middle East Images via AFP)
SecurityScorecard and the Middle East Institute said in separate reports this week that Iranian hacker operations during the 12-day conflict exhibited clear strategic intent.
U.S. Senator Ben Ray Lujan, D-N.M., leaves the Senate floor following a vote on Jan. 23. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images) ***Local Caption *** Ben Ray Lujan
Protests in Iran, which started with the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini after being detained on the grounds that she did not comply with the headscarf rules, continue at the Iranian consulate on October 31, 2022 in İstanbul, Turkey. (Omer Kuscu/ dia images via Getty Images)
U.S. President Joe Biden (R) speaks with the Director of the National Counterterrorism Center Christine Abizaid, as he tours the Center’s Watch Floor at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence in McLean, Virginia, July 27, 2021. (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)
Uighur rights activist Nursimangul Abdureshid poses during an interview in Istanbul on March 12, 2022. She lost contact with her family back in China in 2018 and has been unable to find them. (Photo by Yasin AKGUL / AFP via Getty Images)
Joint Artificial Intelligence Center director U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Michael Groen, speaks during a press briefing, the pentagon, Washington, D.C. in 2021. (Pentagon photo)
A young girl passes by a destroyed apartment building in Bakhmut in the eastern Ukranian region of Donbas on May 22, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The city is now occupied by Russian forces, and a target of the Russian disinformation operations. (Photo by ARIS MESSINIS/AFP via Getty Images)
Secretary of State Antony Blinken testifies during the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on April 27, 2022. The new agreement reached between the White House, the State Department, and the Treasury Department gives State new authorities to monitor cyber ops. (Photo by Carolyn Kaster / POOL / AFP) (Photo by CAROLYN KASTER/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
