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Note: SysAid was not compromised, and no SysAid vulnerability was involved. The attacker had already gained access to the victim environment and abused a legitimate software-deployment feature to deploy malware onto another machine within it.
Key Points
Check Point Research (CPR) tracks ‘Cavern Manticore’ as an Iran-nexus threat actor operating against Israeli targets, with a focus on the government and IT sectors.
Cavern Manticore shares technical overlaps with other Iranian MOIS (Ministry of Intelligence and Security)-linked threat actors, including…
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