SMS Messages Socially Engineered to Steal Billions of Rial from Iran’s Citizens

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In the midst of major cyber attacks targeting the general population of Iran, Check Point Research (CPR) sees ongoing malicious campaigns using socially engineered SMS messages to infect tens of thousands of devices of Iran’s citizens. The SMS messages, designed to impersonate the Iranian government, lure victims into downloading malicious Android applications that steal credit card credentials,…

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