Iranian state-backed hackers posed as flirty Scouser called Marcy to target workers in defence and aerospace Iranian state-backed hackers posed as a flirty Liverpudlian aerobics instructor in order to trick defence and aerospace workers into revealing secrets, according to a newly-published study. Researchers from Proofpoint said this morning they had uncovered a fake social media account being operated by state-backed Iranians, …
I'm curious to hear a response from the several commenters who so forcefully disagreed a few weeks ago with Uncle Sam taking down Iranian or Iranian-backed sites for spreading misinformation.
https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/22/iran_media_websites_us_government_seized/
I know "all my data are belong to (the) US." I also don't believe that means Iranian cybercrimes and misconduct should be left without a proportional response. This scam is a serious assault on the UK defence industry. Let's see what the UK response is.
UK Cyber Defence Force Commandos are currently infiltrating Iranian nuclear facilities by sending videos of the Rugby team in drag.
UK Cyber Defense Force is currently trying to expand it's recruitment to non-traditional candidates who may have gone to a school where there were girls !
Are dumb enough to accept a random friend request from someone they don't know. Yeah yeah I'm sure they targeted "lonely loser" type guys who are perhaps more likely to accept a friend request from a young hottie, but they're the ones who should be the most suspicious if they're being honest with themselves.
Still I guess if you try it with a few hundred people you only need a 1% success rate, and then a lot of patience if as they said it was a multi year effort.
I have people who are acquaintances as "friends", and depending on who they are might accept a friend request from them even if I only met them once or wasn't sure I'd ever see them again - if they were interesting in person they might be interesting online. You can always remove them later.
What I don't do is accept requests from people I've never met. If I see there are some mutual friends I might give them a closer look wondering "maybe I know them and just don't remember" but I figure most friend requests out of the blue are scams of some sort, or desperately lonely people that I don't want to deal with.
Such is the nature of espionage! Except now it can be done from a distance by fake personalities instead of training a hit young lady in all the tactics of spy craft.
Some "infamous" examples are:
Mata Hari
Anna Chapman
Vera Atkins
Krystyna Skarbek (Churchill's favorite spy)
Nancy Wake
Pearl Cornioley
Virginia Hall
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/11/allied-world-war-2-female-spy-movies
Targeting "techy" lonely men has always been an effective means of gaining valuable intellegence.
My Iranian girlfriend (unless she was a scouser pretending) said she was going back to Tehran to see her family. I said I'd join her because I'd love to see her country and meet her parents. "No, silly, they'd kill you."
"Your parents would kill me? I mean I don't actually like meeting parents but that is the best excuse ever."
"No silly,, my parents would love you. The mullahs would kill you., and they'd kill me too. We're not married."
The best girlfriends leave you with anecdotes rather than STDs.
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