The MRI Scan That Wasn’t: Inside Iran’s ‘Chosen Brick’ Malware Campaign Against Its Critics Abroad

The file looked like an MRI scan. Lumbar spine, several grey slices of vertebrae, a heading reading something like 'Disk Herniation and Degeneration.' For a dissident living in exile - someone with a body that has been through things, someone waiting on results - it was a plausible thing to open. Opening it handed Iranian intelligence the...