2023-08-10-cyber-brief-no-01-2023.pdf

BfV (Aug 2023) warns that the APT group Charming Kitten is conducting targeted spear‑phishing and multi‑persona social‑engineering campaigns against Iranian regime critics in Germany to harvest credentials and gain access to email/cloud/messaging accounts; the advisory includes attack flow descriptions, a list of suspicious domains (IoCs), and practical mitigations such as verifying contacts, using official login pages, and enabling multi‑factor authentication.