Emennet Pasarged Iranian Threat Group

Emennet Pasarged (aka Eeleyanet Gostar) is a private Iranian threat group conducting hack-and-leak cyber operations against the United States, Israel, Europe, and the Middle East. The main purposes of their campaigns are to embarrass the victims and support the political aims of the Iranian government. The group is known for cybercrimes during the 2020 US presidential election, including hacking voting records, running disinformation campaigns, targeting government officials, sending threatening emails to intimidate voters, and impersonating The Proud Boys. Emennet Pasarged conducts hack-and-leak operations, social media manipulation, and false-flag activities using fake social media accounts, impersonated accounts, dedicated leak websites, Telegram channels, and online hacking forums. The group exploits known vulnerabilities in WordPress, Drupal, Apache Tomcat, CKEditor, FCKeditor (Roxy Fileman), PHP applications, phpMyAdmin, and utilizes tools such as SQLmap, Acunetix, DefenseCode Web Security Scanner, Wappalyzer, Dnsdumpster, TinyMCE Scanner, Netsparker, WPScan, and Shodan.