The Iranian nation-state hacking group known as OilRig has continued to target government organizations in the Middle East as part of a cyber espionage campaign that leverages a new backdoor to exfiltrate data.
“The campaign abuses legitimate but compromised email accounts to send stolen data to external mail accounts controlled by the attackers,” Trend Micro researchers Mohamed Fahmy, Sherif Magdy, and Mahmoud Zohdy said.
