Browsing tag
The Iranian threat actor known as MuddyWater has been attributed to a new command-and-control (C2) infrastructure called DarkBeatC2, becoming the latest such tool in its arsenal after SimpleHarm, MuddyC3, PhonyC2, and MuddyC2Go. “While occasionally switching to a new remote administration tool or changing their C2 framework, MuddyWater’s methods remain constant,” Deep Instinct security researcher Simon […]
Iranian state-sponsored actors are leaving no stone unturned to exploit unpatched systems running Log4j to target Israeli entities, indicating the vulnerability’s long tail for remediation. Microsoft attributed the latest set of activities to the umbrella threat group tracked as MuddyWater (aka Cobalt Ulster, Mercury, Seedworm, or Static Kitten), which is linked to the Iranian intelligence […]
The Iranian state-sponsored threat actor known as MuddyWater has been attributed to a new swarm of attacks targeting Turkey and the Arabian Peninsula with the goal of deploying remote access trojans (RATs) on compromised systems. “The MuddyWater supergroup is highly motivated and can use unauthorized access to conduct espionage, intellectual property theft, and deploy ransomware […]
Cybersecurity agencies from the U.K. and the U.S. have laid bare a new malware used by the Iranian government-sponsored advanced persistent threat (APT) group in attacks targeting government and commercial networks worldwide. “MuddyWater actors are positioned both to provide stolen data and accesses to the Iranian government and to share these with other malicious cyber […]
Newly detected MuddyWater Malware campaign open the sophisticated backdoor in Windows PC by launching Powershell script using weaponized Microsoft word document. Initially, MuddyWater attack targeted the Saudi government using the same set of malicious components with PowerShell script in 2017 also it launch the same attack on other countries like Turkey, Pakistan, and Tajikistan in March […]
A new campaign with the similarities of MuddyWater spotted targetting organizations in Pakistan, Turkey, and Tajikistan. Attackers use various social engineering methods to trick the victims into enabling macros and activate payloads. Security researchers from TrendMicro spotted the campaign says that “we can assume that there is a connection between these new attacks and the […]