Source code of Iranian cyber-espionage tools leaked on Telegram

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https://www.zdnet.com/article/source-code-of-iranian-cyber-espionage-tools-leaked-on-telegram/

By Catalin Cimpanu
Zero Day
ZDNet News
April 17, 2019

In an incident reminiscent of the Shadow Brokers leak that exposed the NSA's 
hacking tools, someone has now published similar hacking tools belonging to one 
of Iran's elite cyber-espionage units, known as APT34, Oilrig, or HelixKitten.

The hacking tools are nowhere near as sophisticated as the NSA tools leaked in 
2017, but they are dangerous nevertheless.


VICTIM DATA ALSO DUMPED ONLINE

The tools have been leaked since mid-March on a Telegram channel by an 
individual using the Lab Dookhtegan pseudonym.

Besides hacking tools, Dookhtegan also published what appears to be data from 
some of APT34's hacked victims, mostly comprising of username and password 
combos that appear to have been collected through phishing pages.

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