MuddyWater Launches RustyWater RAT via Spear-Phishing Across Middle East Sectors

The Iranian threat actor known as MuddyWater has been attributed to a spear-phishing campaign targeting diplomatic, maritime, financial, and telecom entities in the Middle East with a Rust-based implant codenamed RustyWater.

“The campaign uses icon spoofing and malicious Word documents to deliver Rust based implants capable of asynchronous C2, anti-analysis, registry persistence, and modular post-compromise capability expansion,” CloudSEK resetter Prajwal Awasthi said in a report published this week.

Read more: thehackernews.com

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