Bold Spy Malware in Use by the Law Enforcement Command of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Researchers at lookout threat lab reported a new piece of spyware in use by the law enforcement command of the islamic republic of iran dubbed bold spy. This spyware seems mostly used for internal surveillance with exfiltrated data on a c2 server showing it being used against Iranian Kurds and other minority groups analysis showed bold spy also contains ransomware capabilities but researchers didn't find any evidence of it actually being used. A lack of operational security within its servers combined with relatively few samples in the wild indicates bold spy is a relatively new offering malicious all right this isn't a surprise here so um basically iran is spying on their own citizens uh based on what i just saw in the story they