Microsoft attributes Charlie Hebdo attacks to Iranian nation-state threat group

Microsoft’s Digital Threat Analysis Center has attributed a cyber attack against French satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo, to the Iranian group NEPTUNIUM, aka Holy Souls or Emennet Pasargad. The group claimed to have acquired the personal information of over 200,000 magazine subscribers from one of its databases. The cyber intrusion followed the magazine’s cartoon contest ridiculing Iranian Supreme Leader, with the actor then selling the obtained data for around $340,000 in bitcoin.