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Key Findings
Check Point Research (CPR) is monitoring an ongoing Iranian espionage campaign by Scarred Manticore, an actor affiliated with the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS).
The attacks rely on LIONTAIL, an advanced passive malware framework installed on Windows servers. For stealth purposes, LIONTIAL implants utilize direct calls to Windows HTTP stack driver HTTP.sys to load memory-residents payloads.
As part of mutual efforts with Sygnia‘s Incident Response team, multiple forensics tools and techniques were leveraged to uncover additional stages of the intrusions and the LIONTAIL framework.
The current campaign peaked in mid-202…
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