Check Point Research uncovers rare techniques used by Iranian-affiliated threat actor, targeting Israeli entities

Highlights: Check Point Research reveals new findings related to Phosphorus APT group, an Iranian APT group operating in the Middle East and North America.  CPR dubbed this activity cluster Educated Manticore Educated Manticore has substantially enhanced its toolkit by incorporating new techniques, embracing current attack trends, and employing ISO images and other archive files to initiate infection chains.  The research puts a spotlight on the lures of the attack, which used Hebrew and Arabic languages, suggesting targets were entities in Israel. Main findings . Today, Check Point Research (CPR) reveals new findings of a group closely related to Phosphorus. This […]

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