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Hello, everyone, and welcome to the CyberWire Research Saturday.

I'm Dave Bittner, and this is our weekly conversation with researchers and analysts tracking down the threats and vulnerabilities,

solving some of the hard problems and protecting ourselves in a rapidly evolving cyberspace.

Thanks for joining us.

We've been focusing on various threat actors in the Middle East, and this came across our desk, I would say,

just because it was allegedly focusing on Israel,

based on the metadata that we were able to see in the malware.

And so we decided to look into it a little bit more in-depth and see if any conclusions that we could draw.

That's Daniel Schwabby, Chief Information Security Officer and Head of Investigations at Domain Tools.

The research we're discussing today is titled Zion Siphon-O-T malware, first attempts,

Psiops, both?

But when you first encountered this malware sample, what was it that made you think that maybe it needed a closer look than, say, ordinary Windows malware?

Yeah, so I would say the fact that it was, the naming itself was kind of a little bit too on the nose.

And then the other results that our colleagues had already published on some of the functionality

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