The campaign targets politicians involved in economic and military sanctions against Iran, along with various journalists and human rights activists.
A range of political and civil society targets are under fire in an APT attack dubbed the Return of Charming Kitten. The campaign has been tailored to get around two-factor authentication in order to compromise email accounts and start monitoring communications.
According to researchers at Certfa, Iranian state-backed hackers have mounted a spear-phishing campaign aimed at infiltrating the email accounts of politicians involved in economic and military sanctions against Iran, along with various journalists and human rights activists.
The attackers are compromising targets through email, social media and messaging communications, researchers said, with the goal of ongoing surveillance, according to Certfa.
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Source: ThreatPost