APT42 Hackers Pose as Journalists to Harvest Credentials and Access Cloud Data
The Iranian state-backed hacking outfitΒ calledΒ APT42Β is making use ofΒ enhanced social engineering schemes to infiltrate target networks and cloud environments.
Targets of the attack includeΒ Western and Middle Eastern NGOs, media organizations, academia, legal servicesΒ and activists, Google Cloud subsidiary Mandiant said in a report published last week.
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