Jonathan Greig
Iran’s military is using an array of cyber campaigns to root out people accused of helping the country’s adversaries, according to a new report from Google. Researchers at the company’s Mandiant unit uncovered a web of social media accounts, fake websites and more used by Iran’s military to gain information on “Iranians and domestic threats who may be collaborating with intelligence and security agencies abroad, particularly in Israel.”
“The collected data may be leveraged to uncover human intelligence (HUMINT) operations conducted against Iran and to persecute any Iranians suspected to be involved in these operations,” the researchers explained.
Mandiant attributed the campaign to Iran’s government based on the tactics, techniques and targeting seen. The security company noted that it saw no relation between this campaign and the recently discovered operations targeting U.S. elections.
More than 40 fake recruiting websites written in Farsi and Arabic were discovered, with most offering jobs in Israel. Visitors of the website were asked to enter their personal information and other data.
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