Leaked documents linked to Charming Kitten describe Saqeb as a modular Windows surveillance platform built for persistent access, remote commands, keylogging, Telegram session theft, Firefox credential harvesting, and file destruction.

Two defensive simulations of MuddyWater operations show that the power of the Islamic Republic’s hackers does not lie in any single mysterious technology. It comes from combining close knowledge of the target, the exploitation of trust, and a handful of relatively simple technical tools.

Chabokran, or the malicious “Kar” app, uses the promise of employment to steal SMS messages and one-time passwords.

The “Countering Infiltration” bill would make media, academic, and civil-society contacts with the outside world subject to authorization by the Ministry of Intelligence and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Intelligence Organization.

A leaked video offers a rare look inside Kashef, a system used by the IRGC’s Ministry of Intelligence to turn identity and phone records, device IDs, location and travel data—even visits to diplomatic sites—into searchable profiles of individuals and their networks.

A practical guide to citizens’ legal rights during surveillance and wiretapping, searches of phones and computers, interrogations, and the use of personal data in IRGC’s courts

A legal analysis with a focus on surveillance

Republishing Iran International’s report on Direct-to-Cell technology and examining the hopes, technical barriers, and security risks of direct mobile-to-satellite connectivity in Iran

Multiple points of security risk and lack of transparency in the supply chain of the “Bond 5G” phone model under the Iranian brand “Daria”

A review of the Islamic Republic’s digital surveillance patterns in suppressing citizen, building political cases, threatening citizens’ safety through digital tools

Iran’s banking disruption exposed a crisis in the middle layer of e-banking, where shared service cores, emergency isolation, uneven recovery and technical opacity all converged.

A static technical analysis of RTA Keyboard identified multiple security and privacy issues that raise serious concerns about user safety, transparency, and data protection.