OilRig Hackers Exfiltrate Data From Govt. Agencies Using New Backdoors

In an ongoing cyber espionage campaign that uses a new backdoor to exfiltrate data, the Iranian nation-state hacker group OilRig has continued to target Middle Eastern governments. Researchers at Trend Micro, Mohamed Fahmy, Sherif Magdy, and Mahmoud Zohdy, explained that the effort “abuses legitimate but hacked email accounts to deliver stolen data to external mail […]

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