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Nation State Actor

Smoke Sandstorm

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Smoke Sandstorm (formerly BOHRIUM/DEV-0056) compromised email accounts at a Bahrain-based IT integration company in September 2021. This company works on IT integration with Bahrain Government clients, who were likely Smoke Sandstorm’s ultimate target. Smoke Sandstorm also compromised various accounts at a partially government-owned organization in the Middle East that provides information and communications technology to the defense and transportation sectors, which are targets of interest to the Iranian regime. In May of 2022, Microsoft took legal action to disrupt spear phishing operations linked to Smoke Sandstorm.

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Microsoft Threat Intelligence: Recent Smoke Sandstorm Articles

Microsoft disrupts Bohrium hackers’ spear-phishing operation

Civil Action No.

Iranian targeting of IT sector on the rise

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