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Educated Manticore Targets Israeli Tech Academics with Advanced Phishing Kit
Educated Manticore, an Iranian APT group linked to the IRGC Intelligence Organization, launched spear-phishing campaigns targeting Israeli cybersecurity experts, computer science academics, and journalists. Using personas of fake cybersecurity employees or researchers, attackers engaged victims via email and WhatsApp, luring them to phishing pages disguised as Google or Google Meet login portals. A custom React-based phishing kit captured credentials and two-factor authentication tokens in real time via WebSocket, supported by infrastructure spanning over 130 attacker-controlled domains. The campaign emphasizes credential harvesting and identity theft in support of Iranian cyber-espionage objectives amid heightened Iran–Israel tensions.
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Educated Manticore Targets Israeli Tech Academics with Advanced Phishing Kit
Educated Manticore, an Iranian APT group linked to the IRGC Intelligence Organization, launched spear-phishing campaigns targeting Israeli cybersecurity experts, computer science academics, and journalists. Using personas of fake cybersecurity employees or researchers, attackers engaged victims via email and WhatsApp, luring them to phishing pages disguised as Google or Google Meet login portals. A custom React-based phishing kit captured credentials and two-factor authentication tokens in real time via WebSocket, supported by infrastructure spanning over 130 attacker-controlled domains. The campaign emphasizes credential harvesting and identity theft in support of Iranian cyber-espionage objectives amid heightened Iran–Israel tensions.
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Educated Manticore Targets Israeli Tech Academics with Advanced Phishing Kit
Educated Manticore, an Iranian APT group linked to the IRGC Intelligence Organization, launched spear-phishing campaigns targeting Israeli cybersecurity experts, computer science academics, and journalists. Using personas of fake cybersecurity employees or researchers, attackers engaged victims via email and WhatsApp, luring them to phishing pages disguised as Google or Google Meet login portals. A custom React-based phishing kit captured credentials and two-factor authentication tokens in real time via WebSocket, supported by infrastructure spanning over 130 attacker-controlled domains. The campaign emphasizes credential harvesting and identity theft in support of Iranian cyber-espionage objectives amid heightened Iran–Israel tensions.
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Educated Manticore Targets Israeli Tech Academics with Advanced Phishing Kit
Educated Manticore, an Iranian APT group linked to the IRGC Intelligence Organization, launched spear-phishing campaigns targeting Israeli cybersecurity experts, computer science academics, and journalists. Using personas of fake cybersecurity employees or researchers, attackers engaged victims via email and WhatsApp, luring them to phishing pages disguised as Google or Google Meet login portals. A custom React-based phishing kit captured credentials and two-factor authentication tokens in real time via WebSocket, supported by infrastructure spanning over 130 attacker-controlled domains. The campaign emphasizes credential harvesting and identity theft in support of Iranian cyber-espionage objectives amid heightened Iran–Israel tensions.
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Educated Manticore Targets Israel with Improved Cyber Arsenal
Educated Manticore, an Iranian-aligned threat actor linked to the Phosphorus group, has been found targeting Israel with an improved arsenal of tools. The group adopts recent trends, using ISO images and other archive files to initiate infection chains. They have significantly enhanced their toolset with techniques such as .NET executables constructed as Mixed Mode Assembly. The final payload is an updated version of the implant PowerLess, previously attributed to Phosphorus ransomware operations. This evolution shows the group's continuous refinement of their toolsets and delivery mechanisms.
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