VB2019 paper: Domestic Kitten: an Iranian surveillance program

In September last year, researchers at

Check Point


uncovered

an Iranian operation they named ‘Domestic Kitten’ and that used

Android

apps for targeted surveillance.

Active since 2016, the operation continued after this discovery with new malware found during the course of 2019. In a paper presented at VB2019 in London,

Check Point

researchers Aseel Kayal and Lotem Finkelstein analysed the campaign and noted that, despite it not being particularly advanced, it managed to steal some highly sensitive information.

Today we publish Aseel and Lotem’s paper in both

HTML

and

PDF

format. We have also uploaded the video of thier VB2019 presentation to our

YouTube

channel.