[HN Gopher] Iranian cyberspies target US defense orgs with a bra...
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       Iranian cyberspies target US defense orgs with a brand new backdoor
        
       Author : LinuxBender
       Score  : 18 points
       Date   : 2023-12-24 19:23 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.theregister.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.theregister.com)
        
       | lencastre wrote:
       | What was that about Stuxnet, run to walk to crawl,... and send
       | enrichment programs back to the drawing board! what a world we
       | live in.
        
       | mysterydip wrote:
       | "In a series of Xeets" I don't think I'll ever get used to
       | hearing that.
       | 
       | Anyway, C2 means Command and Control, and APT stands for Advanced
       | Persistent Threat, for those wondering.
        
         | wizerdrobe wrote:
         | Is there a plain old "Persistent Threat?" If so what
         | distinguishes from an Advanced one?
        
       | imchillyb wrote:
       | The headline would be a bit more accurate with: 'In response to
       | US Cyber threats, and in retaliation for numerous data breaches
       | incurred in the last 3 yeas, Iranian cyber-spies target...'
       | 
       | Seems the news agencies like to conveniently forget that part of
       | the story.
        
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