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Check Point Research

Check Point Research details the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) of Handala Hack, an Iranian MOIS-affiliated threat actor also tracked as Void Manticore. The group operates multiple personas (Handala, Karma, Homeland Justice) and has expanded targeting from Israel and Albania to US enterprises like Stryker. Their intrusions rely on compromised VPN credentials for initial access, extensive RDP-based lateral movement, and deployment of custom and off-the-shelf wipers. The destructive phase uses four parallel wiping techniques including a custom Handala Wiper with MBR corruption, an AI-assisted PowerShell wiper, VeraCrypt disk encryption, and manual file deletion. NetBird is used to establish internal mesh connectivity. The report includes full MITRE ATT&CK mapping and IOCs including hashes, IPs, and attacker machine hostnames.

Unveiling Group's Modus Operandi