Charming Kitten Hackers Uses Weaponized MS Word Doc to Deploy Powershell Backdoor

Charming Kitten, also known as TA453, is an Iranian government-based cyberwarfare group that has conducted several attacks since 2017. In the middle of May 2023, these threat actors sent a benign email posing as a Senior Fellow of the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) regarding feedback for a project called “Iran in the Global Security […]

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