{"id":11145,"date":"2026-03-06T07:03:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T07:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/06\/dust-specter-targets-iraqi-officials-html\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T07:03:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T07:03:53","slug":"dust-specter-targets-iraqi-officials-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/06\/dust-specter-targets-iraqi-officials-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Dust Specter Targets Iraqi Officials with New SPLITDROP and GHOSTFORM Malware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Dust Specter Targets Iraqi Officials with New SPLITDROP and GHOSTFORM Malware<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>A suspected Iran-nexus threat actor has been attributed to a campaign targeting government officials in Iraq by impersonating the country&#8217;s Ministry of Foreign Affairs to deliver a set of never-before-seen malware.<br \/>\nZscaler ThreatLabz, which observed the activity in January 2026, is tracking the cluster under the name Dust Specter. The attacks, which manifest in the form of two different<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/03\/dust-specter-targets-iraqi-officials.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dust Specter Targets Iraqi Officials with New SPLITDROP and GHOSTFORM Malware A suspected Iran-nexus threat actor has been attributed to a campaign targeting government officials in Iraq by impersonating the country&#8217;s Ministry of Foreign Affairs to deliver a set of never-before-seen malware. Zscaler ThreatLabz, which observed the activity in January 2026, is tracking the cluster [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-11145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thehackersnews","tag-thehackersnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11145"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}