Collaborate Disseminate
A hacking campaign linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is targeting firms in the defense sector with a pair of new backdoors.
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Facebook said on Thursday it upended Iranian government-backed hackers who targeted U.S. military personnel and defense companies on its platform before trying to move conversations elsewhere to infect victims with malware. In a blog post, Facebook linked the campaign to a group known alternately as Tortoiseshell or Imperial Kitten, which primarily had focused on Middle East targets before. This time, they were mainly preoccupied with the United States. “In an apparent expansion of malicious activity to other regions and industries, our investigation found them targeting military personnel and companies in the defense and aerospace industries primarily in the US, and to a lesser extent in the UK and Europe,” wrote Mike Dvilyanski, Facebook’s head of cyber-espionage investigations, and David Agranovich, director of threat disruption. As part of a social engineering effort, the hackers posed via fake online personas as defense and aerospace industry recruiters, or claimed to work in hospitality, journalism, […]
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