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Iran's key cybersecurity threat is ransomware: Former NSA hacker

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CNBC's "Power Lunch" team discusses cybersecurity threats from Iran with David Kennedy of president of TrustedSec.

Weeping over the coffin of slain Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani, killed in a U.S. drone strike in Baghdad, Iran’s supreme leader vowed severe revenge on America, echoing the anger of more than a million mourners in the streets of Tehran.

“Harsh revenge” awaited the “criminals” who killed Soleimani, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei declared. The U.S. assassination of Soleimani, the leader of Iran’s elite Quds force, the foreign arm of its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, has prompted “13 revenge scenarios,” Iran’s Supreme National Security Council secretary announced Tuesday.

“Even if there is consensus on the weakest scenario, carrying it out can be a historic nightmare for the Americans,” Ali Shamkhani said.

And the world appears to be taking it seriously: Markets fell on the news and money is moving into safe havens like gold in the face of potentially greater conflict in the Middle East. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has warned of “homeland-based plots” against infrastructure targets including cyberattacks by Iranian proxies like Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.

“The Trump administration has essentially thrown a hand grenade into already extremely tense region,” Ellie Geranmayeh, a senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, told CNBC. “This move has exposed every American boot on the ground to a possible retaliatory attack.”

Soleimani’s killing followed the storming of the American Embassy in Baghdad by Iran-backed Iraqi Shiite militias in the last week of December, reportedly at the Soleimani’s direction. The violent demonstration was prompted by U.S. airstrikes that killed 25 of those militia members in retaliation for the group’s launch of rockets that killed an American contractor on Dec. 28. Washington has called on all U.S. citizens in Iraq to leave the country immediately, and it’s sending 3,500 additional troops to the region.

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