Tracking Iranian APT Screening Serpens’ 2026 Espionage Campaigns

Unit 42 researchers identified six new remote access Trojan variants deployed by Iran-nexus APT group Screening Serpens between February and April 2026, coinciding with a regional conflict starting February 28, 2026. The group targeted entities in the U.S., Israel, UAE, and other Middle Eastern locations, primarily focusing on technology sector professionals through highly tailored social engineering using personalized recruitment lures. Two new malware families, MiniUpdate and MiniJunk V2, were discovered featuring advanced techniques including AppDomainManager hijacking that manipulates .NET application initialization to disable security mechanisms. The campaigns demonstrated increased technical capabilities and operational resilience, with each variant using dedicated C2 infrastructure hosted on Azure. The attacks leveraged DLL sideloading, scheduled tasks for persistence, and sophisticated evasion techniques to maintain long-term access for espionage purposes.

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Created: 2026-05-22 17:33:20

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#Azure #CyberSecurity #Espionage #InfoSec #Iran #Israel #Malware #MiddleEast #NET #OTX #OpenThreatExchange #RAT #RemoteAccessTrojan #SMS #SideLoading #SocialEngineering #Trojan #UAE #Unit42 #bot #AlienVault

So wie es aussieht, hat #Telegram einen richtig schlechten Deal zum Versand von #SMS nach Deutschland. 🤷
Über einen Euro sollte das kaum kosten.

Die Meldung kam übrigens in der offiziellen App als ich bei jemandem einen bestehenden Account auf ein neues Gerät umziehen wollte.
Die Person hat trotzdem kein Telegram Premium, sondern vorerst einen alternativen Client.

Mal sehen wie lange sich Telegram noch hält.

Whenever a friend sends me an SMS with a #Youtube link (yes, we are old-fashioned), the SMS app on my #LineageOS app shows a thumbnail for that video. I think from a #privacy perspective that's really bonkers (it snitches all of these URLs to Google).

Looks like this is the relevant code: https://github.com/LineageOS/android_packages_apps_Messaging/blob/2848bf3f84999912b074915bd39bb04fe9f6a046/src/com/android/messaging/ui/conversation/ConversationMessageView.java#L504

What are your experiences with reporting such problems to the LOS team? Is this a realistic way to get such behavior removed from the SMS app?

#Android #SMS

Bundesnetzagentur: SMS-Versand in Deutschland fast halbiert

Die SMS war einst ein Massenphänomen. Das ist lang her. Heutzutage führt der Short Message Service ein Schattendasein.

https://www.heise.de/news/Bundesnetzagentur-SMS-Versand-in-Deutschland-fast-halbiert-11305342.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#Mobiles #Mobilfunk #Signal #SMS #Threema #Vodafone #WhatsApp #news

🔥 TRENDING

📢 Microsoft schafft SMS-MFA für persönliche Konten ab - BornCity

🔗 https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMihwFBVV95cUxPaGlXNmJTNHVRNmtRZVdFOFlGYjRBYU5HTVphZmhSMWpwd3R4dlBXc3BPNVljazAxUDRSekUtWEhJeTFlNjVOWkx1SVdZVkhQNDF4b3pYUGNtakVWUEFKdXFpUTUtMzgzLUtVYkkwdExlSTN2c0tPNVpwTktodFp0SjgzeTZpVmM?oc=5

#Microsoft #Microsoft #Sms-mfa #Konten #GlobalFeed #News #DE

*Automatisch gepostet von Global Feed Bot*

🛠️ Title: Gearsystem
🦊️ Idea: A libre & accurate Sega Master System / Game Gear / SG-1000 emulator
🏡️ -
🐣️ https://github.com/drhelius/Gearsystem
🔖 #LinuxEmulation #Sega #sms #GameGear #SG1000
📦️ #Libre #Bin #Arch #Snap
📕️ https://lebottinlinux.vps.a-lec.org/LO.html

🥁️ Update: 3.9.7/8
⚗️ Major release(Stable)🍎️
📌️ Changes: https://github.com/drhelius/Gearsystem/releases
🦣️ From: https://www.youtube.com/embed/msILWL0169g?start=168

🎮️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/donJGpnMFFQ
🎮️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/5AuKvjH4Uqs
🎮️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/iKehYUp45e0

ZDNet: Microsoft won’t send you SMS texts for login anymore – why it’s pushing passkeys instead.”On a new support page, Microsoft announced that it will start phasing out SMS as an authentication and account recovery method for personal Microsoft accounts. Instead, the company is pushing passkeys, which offer much stronger security.”