Iran’s government-backed hackers are trying to infect US military veterans with malware with the help of a malicious website, researchers from security firm Cisco Talos reported on Tuesday. The website, located at hiremilitaryheroes[.]com (pictured above), offers a fake desktop app for download, in the hopes that US military veterans would download and install it, presumably to gain access to job offerings. But Cisco Talos researchers say the app only installs malware on users’ systems and shows an error message, indicating that the installation failed.
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