SpearSpecter Targets Senior Officials and Their Families With Personalized TAMECAT Lures
Tue Jul 21 2026
Government
Malware
Social Engineering
cyberpress.org
Iran-linked APT42 has expanded its targeted espionage activity through the SpearSpecter campaign, using personalized social-engineering lures against senior government and defense officials and, in some cases, their family members. The campaign combines long-running WhatsApp conversations, trusted cloud services, credential theft, and the modular TAMECAT PowerShell backdoor. APT42, also tracked in some reporting as TA453, is […]
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