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Researchers revealed on Tuesday a new espionage effort that has used damaging data-wiping attacks against Israeli companies since at least December 2020. According to The Hacker News, the malicious attack was disguised as ransomware extortion.
SentinelOne, a cybersecurity company, linked the attacks to a nation-state actor associated with Iran and that can be tracked under the alias Agrius.
Security researchers’ states “An analysis of what at first sight appeared to be a ransomware attack revealed new variants of wipers that were deployed in a set of destructive attacks against Israeli targets”.
“The operators behind the attacks intentionally masked their activity as ransomware attacks, an uncommon behavior for financially motivated groups”.
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