August 20, 2026
- The US charged 17 members of Iran's Mabna Institute over a decade-long spearphishing campaign against university professors and government email accounts, with $3.4B in claimed IP theft and $10M rewards on five defendants. The 50-page superseding indictment carries considerably more methodological detail on the three-phase targeting than the press coverage (The Record, SecurityWeek, indictment analysis) (discussion). · Threat Intelligence
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