![]() Recording calls and other sounds tracking the device’s location collecting device identifiers stealing text messages and call logs stealing media files (including photos and videos), plus external storage files and exposing a list of other installed apps. Referred to as ‘Furball’ by researchers, this software was capable of carrying out various data-pilfering and snooping commands, such as: ‘Infy’ (AKA ‘Prince of Persia’), the second group, is accused of spying on personal and work computers used by dissidents in twelve countries, with sensitive data theft made possible once a user has been duped into opening a malicious email attachment.Īlthough Domestic Kitten’s operation was initially identified in 2018, the researchers believe there is evidence that the group had run at least ten campaigns which began a year prior in 2017.įour of these campaigns were still said to be in motion, with the most recent kicking off in November 2020 it was using an Iranian blog website, Telegram channels and text messages to bait people into installing its malicious software. The researchers reported that 1200 victims, residing in seven countries, had been targeted by the campaign, and that over 600 successful infections had taken place. ![]() Repackaging an existing version of an authentic video game found on the Google Play store offering a fake mobile-security app mimicking an app for a restaurant in Tehran providing a compromised app that publishes articles from a local news agency supplying an infected wallpaper app containing pro-Islamic State imagery masquerading as an Android app store to download further software. This was said to be achieved by a variety of means such as: ‘Domestic Kitten’ (AKA ‘APT-50’), is accused of duping users into downloading malicious software onto their smartphones. Researchers believe that the two groups involved were relying on new techniques to install spyware on their intended targets’ computers and smartphones, with the aim of compromising media files and call recordings. The target comprises over 1000 dissidents, with the campaign directed at individuals in twelve countries including the UK, US, and Iran itself. ![]() According to Check Point’s research team, Iran is carrying out a pair of cyber surveillance operations. ![]()
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