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January 2021 Cyber Attacks

ID: 703a763d-64bf-5659-b6dc-17b045859c08

STIX ID: report--703a763d-64bf-5659-b6dc-17b045859c08

Feed Name: Arctic Wolf Blog

Threat Score
82/100

Date Published: 2021-02-08

Date Updated: 2026-04-26

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This report summarizes several notable January 2021 cyber incidents: a sophisticated Iran-linked APT (Charming Kitten) phishing and smishing campaign against political organizations, a prolonged domain hijacking of Perl.com, a large Socialarks data leak exposing ~214 million social media records, and a system-wide cyberattack disrupting Georgetown County services—highlighting high OPSEC and operational impacts across sectors.

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