The second group, known as Infy or Prince Of Persia, is said to spy on the home and work PCs of dissidents in 12 countries, extracting sensitive data after tricking people into opening malicious email attachments. There had been more than 600 successful infections, it said. The American-Israeli company’s researchers documented 1,200 victims being targeted by the campaign, living in seven countries. Repackaging an existing version of an authentic video game found on the Google Play store mimicking an app for a restaurant in Tehran offering a fake mobile-security app providing a compromised app that publishes articles from a local news agency supplying an infected wallpaper app containing pro-Islamic State imagery masquerading as an Android application store to download further software One of the groups, known as Domestic Kitten or APT-50, is accused of tricking people into downloading malicious software on to mobile phones by a variety of means including:
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It said the two groups involved were using new techniques to install spyware on targets’ PCs and mobile devices.Īnd this was then being used to steal call recordings and media files. The efforts were directed against individuals in Iran and 12 other countries, including the UK and US, Check Point said. Iran is running two surveillance operations in cyber-space, targeting more than 1,000 dissidents, according to a leading cyber-security company.
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