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Iranian Infy APT Resurfaces with New Malware Activity After Years of Silence
Threat hunters have discerned new activity associated with an Iranian threat actor known as Infy (aka Prince of Persia), nearly five years after the hacking group was observed targeting victims in Sweden, the Netherlands, and Turkey.
“The scale of Prince of Persia’s activity is more significant than we originally anticipated,” Tomer Bar, vice president of security research at SafeBreach, said in a technical breakdown shared with The Hacker News. “This threat group is still active, relevant, and dangerous.”
Infy is one of the oldest advanced persistent threat (APT) actors in existence, with evidence of early activity dating all the way back to December 2004, according to a report released by Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 in May 2016 that was also authored by Bar, along with researcher Simon Conant.
Hezbollah’s Drug Empire: The Cash Pipeline Fueling Iran’s Most Dangerous Proxy
Hezbollah has built one of the most sophisticated hybrid criminal-terrorist enterprises on earth. Its drug-fueled revenue streams — cocaine from Latin America, Captagon from the ruins of Syria, and money-laundering networks that snake through four continents — now generate billions of dollars annually.
That money buys precision-guided missiles, pays fighters, funds an elaborate social-welfare empire inside Lebanon, and keeps overseas cells active from Buenos Aires to Bangkok.
With Iran’s economy battered by sanctions, the Assad regime gone, and Lebanese authorities finally cracking down on once-protected smuggling clans, Hezbollah’s dependence on narco-dollars has become existential.
UPDATE: 09:30 AM CET
Ban the Hangman’s Regime from the World Cup
There are moments when the international community’s silence becomes complicity. Iran is approaching one of those moments now. In a grim theatre of state terror, the Tehran regime appears poised to hang a national sports champion, boxing hero Mohammad Javad Vafaei Sani, despite growing international outrage. If the world allows this execution to proceed, then it should at least have the honesty to admit that slogans about “sport transcending politics” are meaningless. A regime that uses the gallows as a political weapon has no place on the world’s sporting stage, least of all at the football World Cup.
The life of Mohammad Javad Vafaei Sani, a 30-year-old boxing champion and coach from Mashhad, is in imminent danger. On December 15, 2025, prison authorities informed him that the regime’s Supreme Court had rejected his request for a retrial. On the same day, officials chillingly told his mother by phone that his death sentence had been sent to the department responsible for implementing executions. In Iran’s penal lexicon, that bureaucratic phrase translates into one thing, the final countdown to a state-sanctioned killing.
UPDATE: 08:00 AM CET
PMOI Resistance Units in Zahedan Defy Regime and Reject Both Shah and Mullahs Amid Record Executions
On December 19, PMOI Resistance Units in Zahedan, southeast Iran, launched a new wave of political activities and street protests, turning the city into a scene of confrontation against all forms of dictatorship. In a bold display of defiance, these activists reiterated their commitment to establishing a free and democratic republic, explicitly rejecting both the current clerical regime and the remnants of the past monarchical dictatorship. These actions occur as the regime intensifies psychological warfare and executions to suppress public anger. The Resistance Units emphasized that the only path forward is an organized uprising to overthrow the regime. Their placards carried a clear message to political opportunists: “Anyone who thinks they can hijack the new democratic revolution of Iran like the constitutional and anti-monarchic revolution is badly mistaken.”
Brussels: Iranian Resistance Supporters Rally, Demanding Immediate End to Executions and Blacklist IRGC
Brussels, Belgium – December 19, 2025: Supporters of the Iranian Resistance gathered to protest executions in Iran. The event, held on the occasion of the EU summit, called for urgent international action to stop the regime’s systematic use of executions as a political weapon.
Iran’s Regime Executes Architecture Student on Espionage Charges
The judiciary of the Iranian regime announced that the death sentence of Aqil Keshavarz, an architecture student at Shahrud University, was carried out on charges of “spying for Israel.” Keshavarz’s family had their final visit with him on Friday, December 19, at Urmia Prison. Mizan News Agency, a media outlet affiliated with the judiciary of the Iranian regime, reported that he was executed on the morning of Saturday, December 20, “after the sentence was confirmed by the Supreme Court and following legal formalities.” Hours before Keshavarz’s execution, some student and human rights media outlets reported growing concerns about the imminent implementation of his death sentence.
Iran Regime Moves to Legalize Wage Suppression Amid Deepening Livelihood Crisis
The Iranian regime’s parliament has approved a measure eliminating the legal obligation to increase public sector wages in line with inflation, triggering widespread concern among government employees, retirees, and labor activists. Critics argue that the decision represents not a technical adjustment, but a deliberate step toward formalizing wage suppression at a time of unprecedented economic strain. By repealing Article 125 of the Civil Service Management Law, the parliament has removed the last remaining legal safeguard intended to protect the purchasing power of public sector wages. The change effectively grants the government discretionary authority over salary increases, without any binding requirement to account for inflation.