'BellaCiao' Showcases How Iran's Threat Groups Are Modernizing Their Malware
The dropper is being used in a Charming Kitten APT campaign that has hit organizations in multiple countries.
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The dropper is being used in a Charming Kitten APT campaign that has hit organizations in multiple countries.
The prolific Iranian nation-state group known as Charming Kitten targeted multiple victims in the U.S., Europe, the Middle East and India with a novel malware dubbed BellaCiao, adding to its ever-expanding list of custom tools
The Iranian threat actor displays activity similar to that of other advanced persistent threat groups.
Security experts at Check Point Research described the findings in a new advisory published today
An Iranian nation-state threat actor has been linked to a new wave of phishing attacks targeting Israel that's designed to deploy an updated version of a backdoor called PowerLess