Digital Impact Lab @DigImpactLab
Intelligence on Iran's digital operations. Cyber, influence, sanctions evasion, network infrastructure. Washington, D.C. digitalimpactlab.com Washington, D.C. Joined April 2019-
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None of the constraints that forced this retreat are tied to this one war: no precedent for losing access, no substitute platforms at scale, a satellite leak the state cannot seal, and a cost the economy cannot absorb. Iran can cut the internet. It cannot keep it cut. digimpactlab.substack.com/p/iran-can-cut…
A survey of 230 Iranian business managers put daily losses to the digital economy at 4 to 10 trillion Tomans during the shutdown, with sales drops of up to 70 percent at affected businesses. That cost accumulated in weeks, not years.
Iran has been trying to build a sealed, North Korea style internet since 2006. In 2026 it got closer than ever: an 88 day blackout, the longest national shutdown ever measured. It still could not hold. digimpactlab.substack.com/p/iran-can-cut…
A Telegram phishing operation hitting Iranian journalists doesn't guess passwords. It triggers a real Telegram login as you behind a fake "Microsoft Teams" meeting, then asks you to hand over the code Telegram just sent your phone. radar.certfa.com/en/alerts/ac8b…
The v1.7 warranty treated civilian and state uses as legally equivalent. The licensing framework does not. A corrected subscriber agreement shows where that line falls. Our record at @certfalab shows what crosses it. open.substack.com/pub/digimpactl…
In 2019, a credential-harvesting campaign hit more than 380 universities across 30 countries using spoofed library login pages. The majority carried Let's Encrypt certificates. The same pattern appears in Iranian pre-operational staging infrastructure documented in 2025.
A Let's Encrypt v1.7 subscriber clause circulated with claims ranging from confused to factually wrong. The legal framework is precise. So is our record of how Iranian state actors use the same service. open.substack.com/pub/digimpactl…
We traced the infrastructure, analyzed the BGP routing data, mapped the timeline to the TIC-Delta Telecom agreement, and connected it to OpenAI's own threat intelligence reports. Full report below: digimpactlab.substack.com/p/how-iran-mad…
In at least four published reports, OpenAI documented IRGC-linked actors, including CyberAv3ngers, tied to attacks on US water infrastructure, using ChatGPT despite Iran being a blocked country. The routing architecture documented here is how they got through without a VPN.
Azerbaijan is officially one of the world's top ChatGPT users. Except it isn't. Iran is. The two governments signed an agreement, and now a significant portion of the world's internet infrastructure believes Iranians are Azerbaijani. digimpactlab.substack.com/p/how-iran-mad…
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