Joint CyberSecurity Advisory on a U.S. Federal Agency Breached by Iranian Threat Actors

FortiGuard Labs is aware of a joint advisory (AA22-320A) issued by Cybersecurity and Infrastructure security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on November 16, 2022. The advisory is related to an Iranian government-sponsored campaign where threat actors breached an unnamed U.S. federal agency and deployed a crypto miner and a hacktool to the compromised network.Why is this Significant?This is significant because threat actors backed by the Iranian government compromised a U.S. federal agency and deployed XMRig (crypto …

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