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Facebook Suspends Accounts Used by Iranian Hackers to Target US Military Personnel

Facebook dismantled a “sophisticated” online cyber espionage campaign conducted by Iranian hackers. Iranian hackers targeted about 200 military personnel and companies in the defense and aerospace sectors in the U.S., U.K., and Europe using fake online personas on its platform. The social media giant pinned the attacks to a threat actor known as Tortoiseshell (aka Imperial Kitten) based on the fact that the adversary used similar techniques in past campaigns attributed to the threat group. Facebook’s analysis of the malware infrastructure found that a portion of their toolset was developed by Mahak Rayan Afraz (MRA)

Source: https://thehackernews.com/2021/07/facebook-suspends-accounts-used-by.html

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