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Hi and welcome to Sabar reasons Malicious Life B-Sights.

In July 2021, Nectonos, Cyber Reasons Threat, Research and Intelligence Team, was called to investigate

an espionage campaign targeting aerospace and telecommunications companies

mainly in the Middle East.

Their investigation resulted in the discovery of a new threat actor that has been operating

since at least 2018 and a new and sophisticated

malware that abuses Dropbox, a cloud storage service.

Cyberreason published their findings in a blog post on their website titled Operation

Ghost Shell. Novel Rat targets global aerospace and telecoms firms. Nate Nelson, our senior producer, spoke Aerospace and

Telecoms firms, Nate Nelson, our senior producer, spoke with Asaf Dahan,

senior director and head of threat research at noctornos,

about the investigation in its discoveries.

We bring you the interview and if you will about the investigation in its discoveries.

We bring you the interview, and if you wish to learn more about Operation Ghost Shell,

head on to cyber reason.com slash Ghost Shell.

That's it for me. Enjoy the interview.

Hey, it's off, if you could just briefly start off with who you are.

My name is Asaf. I'm the head of threat research at Cyber Reason.

So firstly, how did the investigation that we're going to be talking about today begin?

Well, that's a good question. We would like to start at the beginning, so at least from

our perspective, we started investigating this around July 2021 so this summer. My team which is the

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