{"id":234892,"date":"2026-04-10T03:28:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T08:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/bitter-linked-hack-for-hire-campaign-targets-journalists-across-mena-region"},"modified":"2026-04-10T03:28:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T08:28:14","slug":"bitter-linked-hack-for-hire-campaign-targets-journalists-across-mena-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/bitter-linked-hack-for-hire-campaign-targets-journalists-across-mena-region","title":{"rendered":"Bitter-Linked Hack-for-Hire Campaign Targets Journalists Across MENA Region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bitter-linked-hack-for-hire-campaign-targets-journalists-across-mena-region.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hack-for-hire phishing tied to Bitter targeted MENA journalists from 2023\u20132025, compromising an Apple account and enabling regional surveillance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hack-for-hire phishing tied to Bitter targeted MENA journalists from 2023\u20132025, compromising an Apple account and enabling regional surveillance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1511],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234892","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=234892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}