By Chiara Fiorillo Six Iranian government officials are facing sanctions after being linked to “malicious” cyber attacks targeting critical infrastructure organisations in the UK and abroad. The US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) imposed sanctions on the officials who are part of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Cyber-Electronic Command (IRGC-CEC). They have been accused of hacking and posting images on the screens of programmable logic controllers manufactured by Unitronics, an Israeli company. Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financ…