After a reliable source informed us about the recent attack by a new hacking group against the Pendar Koshk Imen Company (PKI), a representative of the group contacted us to provide further information about them, which we have published below:
“We are appreciative for your professional and precise media coverage of our exposé operation against Pendar Kooshk Imen. Iranian citizens have the right to access transparent information about how security companies manage their personal data.
To maintain the accuracy of information, which we know is your priority, we kindly ask you to consider two corrections in the report. First, the exact name of our group is “SETAREHGAN AZADI” (Stars of Freedom), and while it may seem minor spelling mistake, it is significant to us. Secondly, our symbol is the “red tulip”flower the same symbol that signifies the blood of those who gave their lives. Tulips that bloomed over 2,500 times again on Iran’s streets in Bahman 1404, when people simply cried out for economic justice and the regime answered them with bullets.
In your report, you wrote that this is the third major security incident in the banking sector in just the past two months. The real question is why are companies entrusted with the financial information of millions of Iranians so vulnerable? Where do Iran’s cybersecurity resources actually go? Our answer, exactly where the money for medicine, food, hospitals, and people’s infrastructure goes, into missile factories, weapons programs, and proxy forces being funded in Yemen, Lebanon, and Syria.
Now let me clarify the answer to your question about our group’s affiliation and motivation. We are not affiliated with any foreign government or political organizations. We are Iranian technologists in the diaspora with only one goal and that is exposing the theft of national resources by the regime’s military-industrial complex.
We hope you stay on this story. The Iranian people have the right to know what’s happening. We will continue our exposés and we’re counting on journalists like you who refuse to stay silent.
Each of our operation is a tribute to our immortals, and our work continues until we achieve resource justice. Thank you for your attention. We look forward to your continued coverage on this matter, because our work has only just begun.”
If you have any information about the activities of any other hacking groups, please contact us.
