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Ferocious Kitten: the cyberspies preying on Iranian web users
France24
17 Jun 2021, 04:08 GMT+10
For years Ferocious Kitten has been harvesting information from Iranian web users, while remaining undetected by cybersecurity firms. Its espionage tools are ideally suited for domestic surveillance, according to a report by security experts.
The malware is concealed in a seemingly innocuous phrase, a bait presumably intended for critics of the Islamic Republic. My name is Hussein Jaffari, I was a prisoner of the regime between 1364 and 1365, reads the message, referring to the years 1985-6 in the Persian calendar. Except Hussein Jaffari never even existed; he is merely a ploy, designed to lure readers into clicking on a file containing malicious surveillance software.