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Charming Kitten exposed: Elite Iranian cyber unit targeting Israel's most sensitive sites

Haaretz • November 20, 2025

Haaretz has analyzed a massive leak that exposed the global hacking operations of one of the Revolutionary Guards' top hacker units. Advanced tools were used, including in an attempt to break into the systems of the company that makes Iron Dome and the Israel Airports Authority

A massive leak exposing an elite cyber unit of Iran's Revolutionary Guards has been published online, exposing the identities of the soldier hackers and their commanders, their tools, the hacking infrastructure they established around the world – including in Israel – and the operations they conducted.

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