Israel had its technology, logistics, and transportation industries targeted by Iranian advanced persistent threat operation Charming Kitten, also known as APT35 and Imperial Kitten, last month amid its ongoing war with Palestinian militant group Hamas, according to The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future. Aside from job-related lures and strategic web compromise techniques to obtain browser data and IP addresses, malicious Excel files have also been used by Charming Kitten to facilitate the deployment of various malware strains, most of which were part of the IMAPLoader family, in its attacks, a report from CrowdStrike’s Counter Adversary Operations revealed.

Source: SC Magazine