The dissident group “Ghiam ta Sarnegouni” (meaning “Uprising Until Regime Overthrow”) has taken responsibility for disabling the news agency of Khaneye Mellat, the news agency of the Iranian regime’s parliament (Majlis). This group claims to have disabled more than 600 servers of the regime’s Majlis.
The Parliament’s public relations, in a statement, confirmed the defacing of its websites. The opposing group “Uprising until Overthrow” stated in its announcement that the main servers of the parliament, commission servers, main hall servers, parliament support servers, parliament database servers, and some other servers related to the secretariat, deputies, and representatives’ offices have been disabled.
One of these documents pertains to the approvals of the Supreme National Security Council regarding methods to circumvent sanctions.
The group has also published some internal documents of the parliament, including the list of representatives’ salaries in June 2023, on their Telegram channel.
In the initial response, the Parliament’s public relations rejected the authenticity of these documents and stated, “Preliminary examination of the images indicates that some of these documents have been tampered with and are not credible.”
The announcement mentioned that “hackers probably manipulated real documents with limited access to some documents. As an example, in a file titled ‘Representatives’ Salaries in June 2023,’ a column titled ‘Final Sum’ contains unreal figures that do not exist in the parliament’s payment records.”
The disabling of the Parliament’s news agency comes two weeks before the upcoming parliamentary elections. The twelfth parliamentary elections, like previous rounds, have been accompanied by widespread disqualification of candidates and are scheduled to be held on March 1.
After defacing the parliamentary systems, the “Uprising until Overthrow” group published a collection of internal and confidential documents on their Telegram channel.
In recent years, this group has repeatedly targeted Iranian government agencies. In June 2023, they defaced the Presidential system in Iran and exposed numerous documents from this institution, revealing some of the Revolutionary Guard’s activities in equipping and suppressing protests.
Despite the leakage of such information from the servers of government institutions, Gholamreza Jalali, the head of the Passive Defense Organization, stated on October 23, 2023, “From last year until now, 10 major cyber attacks on the country’s vital infrastructure have been discovered and thwarted.”
