By Ionut Arghire on December 10, 2020 Two new backdoors have been attributed to the Molerats advanced persistent threat (APT) group, which is believed to be associated with the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas. Likely active since at least 2012 and also referred to as Gaza Hackers Team, Gaza Cybergang, DustySky, Extreme Jackal, and Moonlight, the group mainly hit targets in the Middle East (including Israel, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Iraq), but also launched attacks on entities in Europe and the United States. In early 2020, security researchers at Cybereason's Nocturnus group published information on two new malware families used by the APT, namely Spark and Pierogi. Roughly a month later, Palo Alto Networks revealed that the group had expanded its target list to include insurance and retail industries, in addition to the previously targeted government and telecommunications verticals.