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Mahdi campaign, ongoing cyber-espionage in the Middle East

An ongoing campaign to conduct a large scale infiltration of computer systems in the Middle East area. The campaign has targeted individuals across several states of the area such as Iran, Afghanistan and also Israel. The operation discovered has been named Madi due the presence of certain strings used by the attackers. Kaspersky Lab and Seculert have isolated the agents and identified the Madi Command & Control (C&C) servers, identifying more than 800 victims. The success key of this type of attacks is the ability to trick users attention on attractive contents proposed by the documents.”]

Source: https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/7443/intelligence/mahdi-campaign-ongoing-cyber-espionage-in-the-middle-east.html

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