Iran-aligned BladedFeline spies on Iraqi and Kurdish officials, ESET Research discovers

MONTREAL and BRATISLAVA, Slovakia, June 05, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Iran-aligned threat group BladedFeline has targeted Kurdish and Iraqi government officials in a recent cyber-espionage campaign, according to ESET researchers. The group deployed a range of malicious tools discovered within the compromised systems, indicating a continued effort to maintain and expand access to high-ranking officials and government organizations in Iraq and the Kurdish region. The latest campaign highlights BladedFeline’s evolving capabilities, featuring two tunneling tools (Laret and Pinar), various supplementary tools, and, most notably, a custom backdoor Whisper and a malicious Internet Information Services (IIS) module PrimeCache, both identified and named by ESET.

Source: https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2025/06/05/3094169/0/en/Iran-aligned-BladedFeline-spies-on-Iraqi-and-Kurdish-officials-ESET-Research-discovers.html