IRANIAN HACKERS TARGET DEFENSE AND GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS IN ONGOING CAMPAIGN

Summary from the TLDR InfoSec newsletter

APT42 (aka SpearSpecter) targets senior defense/government officials through social engineering, extending attacks to victims' family members to increase pressure. The campaign deploys TameCat malware, a PowerShell backdoor using Telegram/Discord for C&C that performs reconnaissance, credential theft, and data exfiltration while evading detection through in-memory execution and obfuscation.