Israel-linked hacking group claims attack on Iranian gas pumps

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : Sunday's incident in Iran appears to be the first cyberattack since the current round of fighting began to have major physical consequences.
45% : Iranian-backed Houthi fighters have in recent weeks carried out a string of attacks targeting commercial shipping vessels in the Red Sea, prompting some major oil producers to halt oil shipments via the Suez Canal.U.S. destroyers deployed to the Red Sea have shot down a string of Houthi drones in recent weeks following drone attacks on commercial shipping vessels.
45% : Last year, the group struck steel manufacturing plants in Iran.
43% : Iran's oil minister, Javad Owji, told Iranian state TV that as many as 70% of the country's gas stations had been disrupted in the incident, which is the second time in the past two years that Predatory Sparrow has disrupted gasoline supplies in Iran.
41% : The group known as Predatory Sparrow wrote in a statement to X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, that the attack had knocked out "a majority of the gas pumps throughout Iran" and that it came "in response to the aggression of the Islamic Republic and its proxies in the region.
40% : Predatory Sparrow has not declared its affiliation with Israel, but the group is widely believed to be a persona created by Israeli security services as part of its long-running conflict with Iran.
37% : "This group has been one half of a cyber conflict that was going on within Iran and Israel before the most recent violence erupted," said John Hultquist, the chief analyst at Mandiant Intelligence.

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