{"id":4537,"date":"2025-06-05T13:15:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T13:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/06\/05\/iran-linked-bladedfeline-hits-iraqi-and-kurdish-targets-with-whisper-and-spearal-malware\/"},"modified":"2025-06-05T13:15:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T13:15:17","slug":"iran-linked-bladedfeline-hits-iraqi-and-kurdish-targets-with-whisper-and-spearal-malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/06\/05\/iran-linked-bladedfeline-hits-iraqi-and-kurdish-targets-with-whisper-and-spearal-malware\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran-Linked BladedFeline Hits Iraqi and Kurdish Targets with Whisper and Spearal Malware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bAn Iran-aligned hacking group has been attributed to a new set of cyber attacks targeting Kurdish and Iraqi government officials in early 2024.<br \/>\nThe activity is tied to a threat group ESET tracks as BladedFeline, which is assessed with medium confidence to be a sub-cluster within OilRig, a known Iranian nation-state cyber actor. It&#8217;s said to be active since September 2017, when it targeted\u00a0An Iran-aligned hacking group has been attributed to a new set of cyber attacks targeting Kurdish and Iraqi government officials in early 2024.<br \/>\nThe activity is tied to a threat group ESET tracks as BladedFeline, which is assessed with medium confidence to be a sub-cluster within OilRig, a known Iranian nation-state cyber actor. It&#8217;s said to be active since September 2017, when it targeted\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bAn Iran-aligned hacking group has been attributed to a new set of cyber attacks targeting Kurdish and Iraqi government officials in early 2024. The activity is tied to a threat group ESET tracks as BladedFeline, which is assessed with medium confidence to be a sub-cluster within OilRig, a known Iranian nation-state cyber actor. It&#8217;s said&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/06\/05\/iran-linked-bladedfeline-hits-iraqi-and-kurdish-targets-with-whisper-and-spearal-malware\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Iran-Linked BladedFeline Hits Iraqi and Kurdish Targets with Whisper and Spearal Malware<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4537"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}