14 DAY TRIAL // The first victim of ComodoHacker's hits on certificate authorities claims he is more certain than ever that the Iranian government is sponsoring the infamous cybercriminal.
According to ComputerWorld, the CEO of Comodo, the CA which fell victim to the attacks early this year, has come forward with further accusations.
"We believe these are politically motivated, state driven/funded attacks," Melih Abdulhayoglu said at the time of the hit on his company.
After more recent events, the chief executive maintained his beliefs on the matter.
"We believe this is state-sponsored. It seems that they need these certificates, as we stated in March, they will not stop attacking," he stated.
Previous evidence shows clearly that the rogue certificates were used against people in Iran, but the shocking fact is that the government might be the one that funded the whole operation.
The authorities control the ISPs from within the country's borders so they would have no problems in compromising DNS servers in order to spread spyware.
ComodoHacker claims that he works alone and that the attacks were launched to revenge the death of 8000 Muslims, but the fact that 300,000 Iranians were spied on using the means offered by the hacker, makes it is very plausible that the hacks were ordered by state officials who are obsessed with controlling the masses through any means necessary.
In recent posts on his Pastebin account, the cybercriminal claims that he also tried to access StartCom CA's network but he failed because the company was expecting his attack.
On September 7, the 21-year old wrote that the people who were spied on using the fake certificates deserved it as they were against Islam and the state.
He also makes a special note to Melih Abdulhayoglu to whom he writes “Dear Melih, please wake up, I'm the only hacker, just I have shared some certs with some people in Iran, that's all... Hacker is single, just know it “
Finally, he makes further threats, naming the places he will use to launch his upcoming attacks “Israel, USA and Europe.”