Tanya Goudsouzian Ibrahim Al-Marashi
Whatever the outcome of Iraq’s November 11 parliamentary elections, the next government must address the threat of cybercrimes that threaten Iraq’s post-conflict recovery and could inflame both domestic and regional conflict.
From the 2019 defacing of more than 30 government websites to a surge in blackmail and extortion campaigns targeting women and youth on social media, cybercrime in Iraq is rapidly expanding to include attacks aimed at governments and critical institutions.
In September, a blog monitoring the dark web reported that a threat actor claimed to possess the personal records of over 30 million Iraqi citizens, describing the breach as a victory in the “cyber war” against the Iraqi government. If true, the data leak would represent one of the largest digital compromises in history, laying bare the country’s fragile cyber defenses.
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