Digital Digging with Henk van Ess

Digital Digging with Henk van Ess

How AI reveals Iran stole a Dutch bakery's identity for hacking

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Henk van Ess
Oct 31, 2025
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Someone in Tehran needed to rent servers for hacking operations. They needed an address that looked legitimate enough to fool a hosting company. So they borrowed the identity of a bakery in Haarlem. A real bakery. Where people buy bread.

That address appeared on 31 invoices for attack servers between 2023 and 2025. The bakery had no idea.

I used AI to stu…

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