A spear-phishing campaign targeting prominent cyber security professionals, computer science academics, and journalists in Israel has been traced to an Iranian state-sponsored hacking outfit affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
According to a report released Wednesday by Check Point, in some of those efforts, attackers used emails and WhatsApp conversations to approach Israeli technology and cyber security specialists who were pretending to be assistants to technology executives or academics. Victims who interacted with the threat actors were sent to phoney Google Meet invitations or Gmail login sites.
Educated Manticore, which overlaps with APT35 (and its sub-cluster APT42), CALANQUE, Charming Kitten, CharmingCypress, Cobalt Illusion, ITG18, Magic Hound, Mint Sandstorm (formerly Phosphorus), Newsreader, TA453, and Yellow Garuda, is the threat cluster that the cybersecurity firm identified as the source of the activity read more about Iranian APT35 Hackers Targeting Israeli Tech Experts with AI-Powered Phishing Attacks.
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