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Iranian government agencies targeted by Chinese hackers

  Many reports are saying that the  Iranian government records and institutes were targeted by the Chinese advance persistent between July and December in the last year of 2022. Many reports are indicating that Chinese NICKEL, APT15, KeChang, Backdoor Diplomacy, and Vixen Panda are suspected. Their act was like hacking and seems like malware infrastructure associated with the APT group. In a blog, Palo Alto Networks said about the Chinese activity that they always continue to do such a strategy and its tooling with another nation. Recently it has become clear that cyber-espionage operation was earlier done by China and they did it successfully. The Turian backdoor and new C2 infrastructure show that these actors continue to be successful. The cyber security firm also stated in their statement that analysis of malicious infrastructure samples and connections shows that Iranian government networks are likely to be compromised. The report does not stop just by warning the Irish ...