Microsoft Sees Growing Iranian Spying Threat on IT Sector

Microsoft Sees Growing Iranian Spying Threat on IT Sector
A Microsoft computer is among items displayed at a Microsoft store in suburban Boston, on Jan. 28, 2020. Steven Senne/AP Photo
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Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) has observed multiple Iranian threat actors targeting the IT services sector in attacks that aim to steal sign-in credentials belonging to downstream customer networks to enable further attacks.

The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) and Digital Security Unit (DSU) assess this as part of a broader spying objective to compromise organizations of interest to the Iranian regime.