{"id":8220,"date":"2025-11-06T07:03:52","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T07:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/06\/mysterious-smudgedserpent-hackers-html\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T07:03:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T07:03:52","slug":"mysterious-smudgedserpent-hackers-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/06\/mysterious-smudgedserpent-hackers-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Mysterious &#8216;SmudgedSerpent&#8217; Hackers Target U.S. Policy Experts Amid Iran\u2013Israel Tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>Mysterious &#8216;SmudgedSerpent&#8217; Hackers Target U.S. Policy Experts Amid Iran\u2013Israel Tensions<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>A never-before-seen threat activity cluster codenamed UNK_SmudgedSerpent has been attributed as behind a set of cyber attacks targeting academics and foreign policy experts between June and August 2025, coinciding with heightened geopolitical tensions between Iran and Israel.<br \/>\n&#8220;UNK_SmudgedSerpent leveraged domestic political lures, including societal change in Iran and investigation into the<\/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\/2025\/11\/mysterious-smudgedserpent-hackers.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mysterious &#8216;SmudgedSerpent&#8217; Hackers Target U.S. Policy Experts Amid Iran\u2013Israel Tensions A never-before-seen threat activity cluster codenamed UNK_SmudgedSerpent has been attributed as behind a set of cyber attacks targeting academics and foreign policy experts between June and August 2025, coinciding with heightened geopolitical tensions between Iran and Israel. &#8220;UNK_SmudgedSerpent leveraged domestic political lures, including societal change [&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-8220","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\/8220"}],"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=8220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}