Hack attacks are growing at the speed of 5G across the globe, and Iraq has been hard-hit lately.

Axar.az reports citing Al-monitor that the official website of controversial Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr was hacked Jan. 6 after he called for his followers to activate the Mahdi Army to fight US troops.

His call followed the US assassination of top Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani and the deputy head of the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. The hackers put Iraqi-US flags on the homepage, writing: "Iran no more."

That intrusion came just weeks after several other attacks on official Iraqi websites - including the prime minister's.