{"id":7725,"date":"2026-04-09T12:11:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T12:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/09\/bitter-linked-hack-for-hire-campaign-targets-journalists-across-mena-region\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T12:11:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T12:11:40","slug":"bitter-linked-hack-for-hire-campaign-targets-journalists-across-mena-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/09\/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>\u200bAn\u00a0apparent hack-for-hire campaign likely orchestrated by a threat actor with suspected ties to the Indian government targeted journalists, activists, and government officials across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), according to findings\u00a0from Access\u00a0Now, Lookout,\u00a0and SMEX.<br \/>\nTwo\u00a0of the targets included prominent Egyptian journalists and government critics, Mostafa\u00a0An\u00a0apparent hack-for-hire campaign likely orchestrated by a threat actor with suspected ties to the Indian government targeted journalists, activists, and government officials across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), according to findings\u00a0from Access\u00a0Now, Lookout,\u00a0and SMEX.<br \/>\nTwo\u00a0of the targets included prominent Egyptian journalists and government critics, Mostafa\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bAn\u00a0apparent hack-for-hire campaign likely orchestrated by a threat actor with suspected ties to the Indian government targeted journalists, activists, and government officials across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), according to findings\u00a0from Access\u00a0Now, Lookout,\u00a0and SMEX. Two\u00a0of the targets included prominent Egyptian journalists and government critics, Mostafa\u00a0An\u00a0apparent hack-for-hire campaign likely orchestrated by a threat actor&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/09\/bitter-linked-hack-for-hire-campaign-targets-journalists-across-mena-region\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bitter-Linked Hack-for-Hire Campaign Targets Journalists Across MENA Region<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7726,"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\/7725"}],"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=7725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}