Over the last few years, the threat from Iran-based cyberattacks has been quietly growing. The country was not previously seen as the most capable nation state<\/u><\/a>, compared to its fellow CRINK<\/u><\/a> adversaries, but when Israel and the US hit Iran with airstrikes at the end of February, along with cyber operations<\/u><\/a>, the threat began to escalate.<\/p>\n At the start of March, the UK National Cyber Security Center (NCSC)<\/u><\/a> issued a warning<\/u><\/a> that there \u201cis almost certainly a heightened risk of indirect cyber threat\u201d for organizations who have a presence or supply chains in the Middle East.<\/p>\n