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Iranian Hackers Use Fake Dubai Airports Coding Test to Target Iraqi Critical Infrastructure
Iranian state-aligned hackers have used a fake Dubai Airports recruitment process to target Iraqi critical infrastructure with a booby-trapped coding test. The campaign, called Blinder Tunnel, turned a routine developer task into a quiet, potentially long-term route for remote access, persistence and network tunneling across a victim environment. The operation was prepared as early as […] The post Iranian Hackers Use Fake Dubai Airports Coding Test to Target Iraqi Critical Infrastructure appeared first on Cyber Security News.
Iranian state-aligned hackers have used a fake Dubai Airports recruitment process to target Iraqi critical infrastructure with a booby-trapped coding test. The campaign, called Blinder Tunnel, turned a routine developer task into a quiet, potentially long-term route for remote access, persistence and network tunneling across a victim environment. The operation was prepared as early as November 2025 and activated in March 2026 against a likely Iraqi software engineer. Victims first received a convincing offline careers portal,…
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