The new report claims that Iranian hackers have been targeting Israel and other countries with this campaign.
According to the findings of the UK-based cybersecurity firm ClearSky, an Iranian APT group has been running a widespread hacking campaign to compromise VPN servers and install backdoors or bugs to access networks of different organizations across the globe.
Dubbed Fox Kitten; the campaign was launched three years back (2017) to target “dozens of companies and organizations in Israel around the world,” the company stated in its official statement.
The attackers successfully infiltrated networks of many organizations across diverse sectors from IT, oil and gas, telecom, security, and government. The organizations have footprints throughout the world, which makes this campaign a global scam.
Image credit: ClearSky
The alarming fact is that during this operation, Iranian hackers not only gained access to the networks of so many organizations around the world but made sure that they were able to hijack the device for as long as they wanted to.
Using the campaign, hackers could develop and maintain access routes to their target companies and obtain sensitive data.
“Hackers maintained a long-lasting foothold at the targeted organizations and breach additional companies through supply-chain attacks,” researchers said in their blog post.
To pull off the attack, hackers used different tools, a majority ..
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