Iranian APT Infrastructure in Focus: Mapping State-Aligned Clusters During Geopolitical Escalation

Hunt.io's SpiceRAT detections linked shared infrastructure across malware families from Bitdefender's SilkParasite report to energy, government, and telecom targets in Central Asia.

Hunt.io traced five exposed directories to a SecFlow-run campaign that used Claude, Qwen and DeepSeek as workers against government, education and diplomatic targets across Asia.

Kaspersky's Holy Water campaign analysis: compromised religious and charity websites in Asia served staged JavaScript that profiled visitors and delivered fake Flash updates installing backdoors.

Viettel researchers walk through a Mustang Panda APT sample disguised as a job CV that targeted a Vietnamese provincial government via an @edu.vn phishing email.

Viettel Threat Intelligence tracks Goblin Panda (aka Hellsing, 1937CN) campaigns exploiting COVID-19 themes, using RTF exploits and PlugX/NewCoreRAT to breach government targets and evade most AVs.

Hunt.io parsed a Redis cryptomining botnet's own exposed logs: 3,562 servers compromised, rogue replication as the only technique that scaled, and 72.6% success against a no-auth target list.