Iranian state-sponsored hackers have launched a new wave of phishing attacks targeting Israeli journalists, cybersecurity professionals and computer science professors, according to a Tel Aviv-based cybersecurity company. The threat actor, known as APT42 and also tracked as Educated Manticore, Charming Kitten and Mint Sandstorm, is believed to operate under Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). In the group’s latest espionage campaign, hackers posed as employees of cybersecurity firms to trick high-profile Israeli targets into revealing their email credentials and two-factor authentication codes, according to researchers at Check Point.
Israeli cyber and computer science experts phished by Iran-linked APT42 (Daryna Antoniuk – The Record)
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