Canada's Spy Agency Names Iranian Hacking Group But Omits the DOJ Case That Exposed Its Cartel Bounty on a Canadian Politician

CSIS 2025 public report names the Iranian-linked group Handala Hack for doxxing a journalist while omitting the FBI affidavit attributing the same network to a $250K CJNG bounty on Ghamari.

OTTAWA/WASHINGTON — Canada’s intelligence service has, for the first time, named the Iranian-linked cyber operator at the center of a U.S. federal criminal case that exposed Iran’s issuing a $250,000…