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Weaponizing Fear: Iran Conflict-Themed Phishing Uses Fake Emergency Alerts

ID: f81b7f6e-e091-5629-a055-d0e3c1432060

STIX ID: report--f81b7f6e-e091-5629-a055-d0e3c1432060

Feed Name: Cofense Blog

Threat Score
55/100

Date Published: 2026-04-06

Date Updated: 2026-04-27

Author: Cofense

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This Cofense report details a mass phishing campaign that impersonates a Ministry of Interior emergency alert tied to regional conflict, leveraging urgency and QR codes to redirect recipients to a Microsoft-themed phishing page that harvests credentials; the blog includes observed infection and payload URLs and associated IP addresses and analyzes the social-engineering techniques used.

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