Key Findings Suspected Iran-nexus threat actor, tracked as "Dust Specter", targeted Iraqi government officials in a campaign observed in January 2026. The threat actor used phishing emails impersonating Iraq's Ministry of Foreign Affairs to deliver previously undocumented malware families, including SPLITDROP, TWINTASK, TWINTALK, and GHOSTFORM. The attacks involved two different infection chains, one using a password-protected RAR archive and another consolidating the same fu
