Charming Kitten APT Tries Spying on Israeli Cybersecurity Experts
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Charming Kitten (aka APT42/Educated Manticore), an Iran-linked state-sponsored actor, is conducting a targeted spear-phishing campaign against Israeli cybersecurity and computer-science experts using impersonation (journalist/researcher personas), WhatsApp and email outreach, meeting lures that lead to credential-phishing pages (including Google Meet/Gmail mimics), and rapidly rotated infrastructure comprising over 100 domains — a focused, high-sophistication espionage effort likely aimed at intelligence collection and retaliation.
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