Brighten Up the Ideal Sky: An Inside View of Charming Kitten’s Operations and Support to the IRGC

SANS Cyber Threat Intelligence Summit 2023

Brighten Up the Ideal Sky: An Inside View of Charming Kitten’s Operations and Support to the IRGC
Joshua Miller, Senior Threat Researcher, Proofpoint

We’ll use Proofpoint telemetry and reporting along with sensitive collection from adversary infrastructure along to better understand TA453 (CharmingKitten) and delve into their varied phishing techniques, targeting, and attribution.

We will first examine a sampling of the different techniques TA453 utilizes to engage their targets with spear phishing. Having established the …

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