Fox Kitten – Iranian Malware Campaign Exploiting Vulnerable VPN Servers To Hack The Organizations Internal Networks
Researchers discovered a widespread Iranian malware campaign called Fox Kitten that targeting the several organization networks by exploiting the Vulnerabilities in VPN. The organization its targets are mainly related to IT, Telecommunication, Oil and Gas, Aviation, Government, and Security sectors around the world. Once the attacker successfully exploited the network, they are gaining the persistence access to the internal system and foothold in the networks of numerous companies. Fox Kitten campaign believed to be originated from Iran, and infamous Iranian offensive group APT34-OilRig are behind this attack also researchers suspected that this campaign has some connection with PT33-Elfin and APT39-Chafer groups. Large infrastructure is used for this campaign to perform a various malicious operation on behalf of the attack including: Develop and maintain access routes to the targeted organizations Steal valuable information from the targeted organizations Maintain a lo