{"id":8474,"date":"2025-11-15T07:03:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T07:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/15\/iranian-hackers-launch-spearspecter-spy-html\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T07:03:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T07:03:30","slug":"iranian-hackers-launch-spearspecter-spy-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/15\/iranian-hackers-launch-spearspecter-spy-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian Hackers Launch \u2018SpearSpecter\u2019 Spy Operation on Defense &amp; Government Targets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>Iranian Hackers Launch \u2018SpearSpecter\u2019 Spy Operation on Defense &#038; Government Targets<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>The Iranian state-sponsored threat actor known as APT42 has been observed targeting individuals and organizations that are of interest to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as part of a new espionage-focused campaign.<br \/>\nThe activity, detected in early September 2025 and assessed to be ongoing, has been codenamed\u00a0SpearSpecter by the Israel National Digital Agency (INDA).<br \/>\n&#8220;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\/iranian-hackers-launch-spearspecter-spy.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian Hackers Launch \u2018SpearSpecter\u2019 Spy Operation on Defense &#038; Government Targets The Iranian state-sponsored threat actor known as APT42 has been observed targeting individuals and organizations that are of interest to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as part of a new espionage-focused campaign. The activity, detected in early September 2025 and assessed to be [&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-8474","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\/8474"}],"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=8474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}