{"id":370,"date":"2024-08-28T06:33:21","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T06:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/?p=370"},"modified":"2025-07-03T07:33:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T05:33:44","slug":"notorious-iranian-hackers-have-been-targeting-the-space-industry-with-a-new-backdoor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/2024\/08\/28\/notorious-iranian-hackers-have-been-targeting-the-space-industry-with-a-new-backdoor\/","title":{"rendered":"Notorious Iranian Hackers Have Been Targeting the Space Industry With a New Backdoor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Iranian government-backed<\/strong>\u00a0hacking group known as APT 33 has been\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/iran-hackers-apt33\/\">active for more than 10 years<\/a>, conducting\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/iran-hackers-us-phishing-tensions\/\">aggressive espionage operations<\/a>\u00a0against a diverse array of public and private sector victims around the world, including critical infrastructure targets. And while the group is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/iran-apt33-us-electric-grid\/\">particularly known<\/a>\u00a0for strategic but technically simple attacks like \u201cpassword spraying,\u201d it has also dabbled in developing more sophisticated hacking tools, including potentially destructive malware\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/iran-apt33-industrial-control-systems\/\">tailored to disrupt industrial control systems<\/a>. Now,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/security\/blog\/2024\/08\/28\/peach-sandstorm-deploys-new-custom-tickler-malware-in-long-running-intelligence-gathering-operations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">findings from Microsoft<\/a>\u00a0released on Wednesday indicate that the group is continuing to evolve its techniques with a new multistage backdoor.<\/p>\n\n\n<a class=\"wp-block-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/2024\/08\/28\/notorious-iranian-hackers-have-been-targeting-the-space-industry-with-a-new-backdoor\/\" target=\"_self\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/iran-peach-sandworm-tickler-backdoor\/\">Notorious Iranian Hackers Have Been Targeting the Space Industry With a New Backdoor | WIRED<\/a><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Notorious Iranian Hackers Have Been Targeting the Space Industry With a New Backdoor<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Iranian government-backed\u00a0hacking group known as APT 33 has been\u00a0active for more than 10 years, conducting\u00a0aggressive espionage operations\u00a0against a diverse array of public and private sector victims around the world, including critical infrastructure targets. And while the group is\u00a0particularly known\u00a0for strategic but technically simple attacks like \u201cpassword spraying,\u201d it has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[31,69,15],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-malware","tag-31","tag-apt33","tag-iran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":371,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions\/371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}