Iran's Cyber Army: Missing in Action

U.S. intelligence gave inflated grades to Tehran’s cyber war capability

Iran’s vaunted cyber war capability turns out to be not so vaunted afterall.  It’s been the dog that didn’t—or hasn’t so far—barked in the war Israel launched against it last week.

For years, intelligence assessments have portrayed Iranian cyber capabilities as fearsome.    

The U.S. intelligence community’s most recent annual threat assessment, as presented by National Intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard to Congress in March, branded Iran’s cyber capabilities “a serious threat to U.S. networks and data” and ranked its operations alongside those of cyber heavyweights China, Russia and North Korea.