U.S. Department of Justice has announced criminal charges and sanctions against 9 Iranians involved in hacking universities, tech companies, and government organisations worldwide to steal scientific research resources and academic papers. The group used spear-phishing attacks to target more than 100,000 e-mail accounts and computer systems of the professors around the world, and successfully compromised 7,998 of those accounts till last December 3,768 of them at US universities. In past four years, the state-sponsored hacking group has allegedly infiltrated more than 320 universities in 22 countries.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2018/03/iranian-hackers-wanted-by-fbi.html