Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2016-08-02 00:00:00
Affected organization: Iranian Telegram users
Affected country: Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Industry: Other Services (except Public Administration)
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server,Exploitation of Data in Transit
Motive: Political-Espionage
Actor: Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (APT 35 Charming Kitten)
Actor type: Nation-State
Actor country: Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Description: Iranian hackers linked to the state sponsored group called Rocket Kitten have compromised more than a dozen accounts on the Telegram instant messaging service and identified the phone numbers of 15 million Iranian users.