{"id":123924,"date":"2021-06-17T17:23:25","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T00:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/molerats-hackers-return-with-new-attacks-targeting-middle-eastern-governments"},"modified":"2021-06-17T17:23:25","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T00:23:25","slug":"molerats-hackers-return-with-new-attacks-targeting-middle-eastern-governments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/molerats-hackers-return-with-new-attacks-targeting-middle-eastern-governments","title":{"rendered":"Molerats Hackers Return With New Attacks Targeting Middle Eastern Governments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/molerats-hackers-return-with-new-attacks-targeting-middle-eastern-governments.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Middle Eastern advanced persistent threat (APT) group has resurfaced after a two-month hiatus to target government institutions in the Middle East and global government entities associated with geopolitics in the region in a rash of new campaigns observed earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Sunnyvale-based enterprise security firm Proofpoint attributed the activity to a politically motivated threat actor it tracks as <b>TA402<\/b>, and known by other monikers such as <a href=\"https:\/\/malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de\/actor\/molerats\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Molerats<\/a> and GazaHackerTeam.<\/p>\n<p>The threat actor is believed to be active for a decade, with a history of striking organizations primarily located in Israel and Palestine, and spanning multiple verticals such as technology, telecommunications, finance, academia, military, media, and governments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Middle Eastern advanced persistent threat (APT) group has resurfaced after a two-month hiatus to target government institutions in the Middle East and global government entities associated with geopolitics in the region in a rash of new campaigns observed earlier this month. Sunnyvale-based enterprise security firm Proofpoint attributed the activity to a politically motivated threat [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,1490,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-government","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}