Sweden accuses Iran of hacking messaging service after Koran burnings 

STOCKHOLM — 

Swedish authorities said connected Tuesday that Iran hacked into a substance messaging work past twelvemonth and sent thousands of messages urging Swedes to instrumentality revenge against Koran burners.

In 2023, individuals successful Sweden connected respective occasions acceptable occurrence to Islam's beatified publication successful public, prompting outrage successful the Muslim satellite and raising fears of attacks by jihadists.

"The information constabulary is capable to found that a cyber radical acted connected behalf of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard to transportation retired an power campaign," the Swedish Security Service said successful a statement.

"The intent was, among different things, to overgarment the representation of Sweden arsenic an Islamophobic state and make part successful society," it said.

Sweden past twelvemonth raised its coercion alert pursuing the Koran burnings.

In a abstracted statement, the Swedish Prosecution Authority said the probe showed it was the Iranian authorities via the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps that carried retired the information breach.

The Swedish bureau said it had identified the idiosyncratic hackers carrying retired the breach but would not property charges.

"Since the perpetrators are acting for a overseas power, successful this lawsuit Iran, we marque the appraisal that the conditions for prosecution overseas oregon extradition to Sweden are lacking," it said.

Iran's embassy successful Stockholm could not instantly beryllium reached for comment. Iran's overseas ministry had nary contiguous comment.