Since November 2023, an Iranian cyber espionage operation named Mind Sandstorm has targeted prominent persons working on Middle Eastern politics at universities and research institutions in Belgium, France, Gaza, Israel, the U.K., and the U.S.
According to a Wednesday investigation by the Microsoft Threat Intelligence team, the threat actor “used bespoke phishing lures in an attempt to socially engineer targets into downloading malicious files,” characterizing it as a “technically and operationally mature subgroup of Mind Sandstorm.”
In several instances, the attacks employ a hitherto undisclosed backdoor called MediaPl, suggesting that Iranian threat actors are continuously working read more Iranian Hackers Masquerade as Journalists to Spy on Israel Hamas War Experts.
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