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12289148884?profile=RESIZE_400xAccording to a warning from cyber threat researchers, an Iranian espionage group has been caught using a new malware framework in a recent sequence of cyberattacks.  The Iranian hacking group Scarred Manticore,[1] linked to the country’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security, has been secretly running a digital spy ring across the Mideast.  It has targeted government and large infrastructure companies such as telecom and financial services to steal data.  The group has been linked to the OilRig

Wapack Labs has been monitoring Iranian cyber activity for several years, specifically the evolving OilRig and Greenbug campaigns. Their adoption of a cyber operational paradigm involving both cyber hacktivism and cyber espionage tactics resembles cyber activity patterns employed by Chinese APT groups, whereby different groups perform different campaigns, with multiple teams conducting separate phases of a cyber campaign. With President Trump’s refusal to re-certify Iran’s compliance with the 20