The United States government has for the first time officially linked the notorious Handala hacker group to the Iranian government. The announcement came amid the takedown of several websites used by Handala. Handala has been on the radar of cybersecurity firms for years, but it gained widespread attention in recent days after ramping up its activity following the start of the US-Israel-Iran conflict. Handala has allegedly launched many attacks against Israel, including wiping military weather servers, hijacking security camera feeds, exfiltrating and deleting corporate data, publicly exposing details of intelligence personnel, and compromising an oil and gas exploration firm. However, its best-known attack targeted the US-based medical technology giant Stryker, causing significant…