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Iranian APT Group Charming Kitten Attacks US & Europe
Iranian APT group Charming-Kitten attacks USA & Europe

Iranian-led APT group Charming Kitten (aka Mint Sandstorm) is behind the new BellaCiao malware campaign targeting organizations in the US, Europe, Israel, Turkey and India. New to the attack: The malware is used as hard code. In its current report, Bitdefender Labs analyzes the attack methods of the new active malware campaign BellaCiao. The well-known Iranian Charming Kitten group uses it to initially search for vulnerabilities in an opportunistic and automated manner before launching highly sophisticated malware attacks that are individually tailored to the individual victims. They then attack the targets using a novel command-and-control (CC) infrastructure. Hackers can...

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Iranian TA453 group targets researchers and accounts
B2B Cyber ​​Security ShortNews

The cyber criminal group TA453, which is associated with Iran, is increasingly using new attack methods and aggressively addressing new targets. This is the preliminary result of ongoing investigations by the cybersecurity company Proofpoint. Since late 2020, Proofpoint researchers have observed discrepancies in TA453's phishing activity (which overlaps with groups publicly known as "Charming Kitten", "PHOSPHORUS" and "APT42"), with the group using new methods and others targets than in the past. TA453 also known as APT42 Email campaigns from TA453 had previously almost always targeted academics, researchers, diplomats,...

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Iranian Hackers: Cyber ​​Attacks on Western Political Experts
B2B Cyber ​​Security ShortNews

Proofpoint's cybersecurity experts have released an investigation into the Iran-directed hacking group TA453, also known as Charming Kitten, PHOSPHORUS and APT42. The group has recently started targeting people specializing in Middle East-related issues, nuclear safety and genetic research. Each of their most recently observed email attacks used multiple fake identities. To do this, TA453 used the identities of real people working in Western foreign policy research institutions. The attacks also use new social engineering tactics to carry out work on behalf of the…

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