Iran’s cyberwar goes global

Iranian diplomats at their country’s embassy in Tirana, Albania’s capital, bundled sensitive documents into a barrel and set them alight in the early hours of September 8th, reported Reuters. They were in a rush; a day earlier, they had been given 24 hours to leave. Hours later local police stormed into the empty mission. The episode was a dramatic culmination of an Iranian cyber-offensive weeks earlier; it highlights Iran’s central role in a series of swirling cyber-conflicts.