Iranian APT42 Launched Over 30 Espionage Attacks Against Activists and Dissidents | allinfosecnews.com

Sept. 11, 2022, 4:21 a.m. | noreply@blogger.com (Ravie Lakshmanan)

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A state-sponsored advanced persistent threat (APT) actor newly christened APT42 (formerly UNC788) has been attributed to over 30 confirmed espionage attacks against individuals and organizations of strategic interest to the Iranian government at least since 2015.
Cybersecurity firm Mandiant said the group operates as the intelligence gathering arm of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (

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