Hamas has been caught taking a classic catfish approach, to tempt Israeli soldiers into installing spyware on their phones. Members posed as teen girls who are looking for quality chat time. This is the third time that the Palestinian group has used the tactic but this time it upped its technical game. In 2017, soldiers were targeted by Facebook friend requests from various ladies along with photos cribbed from other, legitimate Facebook profiles. This time, the malware was able to download and transfer files and provided access to the phone s location for the first time.
Source: https://threatpost.com/hamas-israeli-soldiers-pretty-ladies/153020/