MuddyWater APT Weaponizing Word Documents to Deliver ‘RustyWater’ Toolkit Evading AV and EDR Tools

The Iran-linked MuddyWater Advanced Persistent Threat group has launched a sophisticated spear-phishing campaign targeting diplomatic, maritime, financial, and telecom sectors across the Middle East. The threat actors are using weaponized Word documents to deliver a new Rust-based malware called RustyWater, which represents a major change from their traditional PowerShell and VBS tooling. This upgraded implant […]

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