New research offers insight into what’s a six-year-long ongoing surveillance campaign targeting Iranian expats and dissidents. The threat actor, suspected to be of Iranian origin, is said to have orchestrated the campaign with at least two different moving parts one for Windows and the other for Android using a wide arsenal of intrusion tools in the form of info stealers and backdoors designed to steal personal documents, passwords, Telegram messages, and two-factor authentication codes from SMS messages. Check Point Research said the suite of malware tools had been mainly used against Iranian minorities, anti-regime organizations, and resistance movements.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2020/09/iran-hacking-dissidents.html