{"id":10524,"date":"2022-01-26T20:32:54","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T19:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/sophisticated-threat-actor-targets-governments-defense-industry-in-western-asia\/"},"modified":"2022-01-26T20:32:54","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T19:32:54","slug":"sophisticated-threat-actor-targets-governments-defense-industry-in-western-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/sophisticated-threat-actor-targets-governments-defense-industry-in-western-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophisticated Threat Actor Targets Governments, Defense Industry in Western Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span><span>High-ranking government officials and individuals in the defense industry in Western Asia were targeted in a sophisticated campaign that involved the use of Graphite malware, according to XDR firm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.securityweek.com\/xdr-firm-trellix-launches-following-merger-mcafee-enterprise-and-fireeye\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trellix<\/a>, which resulted from the merger between McAfee Enterprise and FireEye.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.securityweek.com\/sophisticated-threat-actor-targets-governments-defense-industry-western-asia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?a=fzt_pUEQsag:E4NvtggULiA:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?a=fzt_pUEQsag:E4NvtggULiA:-BTjWOF_DHI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?i=fzt_pUEQsag:E4NvtggULiA:-BTjWOF_DHI\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?a=fzt_pUEQsag:E4NvtggULiA:dnMXMwOfBR0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?d=dnMXMwOfBR0\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?a=fzt_pUEQsag:E4NvtggULiA:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?i=fzt_pUEQsag:E4NvtggULiA:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?a=fzt_pUEQsag:E4NvtggULiA:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?a=fzt_pUEQsag:E4NvtggULiA:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?i=fzt_pUEQsag:E4NvtggULiA:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?a=fzt_pUEQsag:E4NvtggULiA:TzevzKxY174\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?d=TzevzKxY174\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?a=fzt_pUEQsag:E4NvtggULiA:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?i=fzt_pUEQsag:E4NvtggULiA:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High-ranking government officials and individuals in the defense industry in Western Asia were targeted in a sophisticated campaign that involved the use of Graphite malware, according to XDR firm Trellix, which resulted from the merger between McAfee Enterprise and FireEye. read more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cyberwarfare","category-news-industry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}