Cyber Operations as Iran’s Asymmetric Leverage

(The Soufan Center) Iran-linked cyber proxies and hacktivists have become highly active since Operation Epic Fury, showing resilience even as the IRGC and the MOIS have been battered by the U.S. and Israel. The MOIS-linked Stryker cyber-attack demonstrates that Iran retains high-end offensive capability and can impose psychological and operational costs far from the battlefield. Iran’s cyber strategy focuses on asymmetric cost imposition, aiming at psychological impact and subsequent resource exhaustion. The People’s Republic of China (PRC) will monitor current U.S. cyber operations for future conflict modeling in Taiwan. – Cyber Operations as Iran’s Asymmetric Leverage – The Soufan Center