Muddywater Utilizes Custom Tools to Target Telecom Companies

Summary: Iranian espionage group Muddywater,targeted telecommunications companies in Egypt, Sudan, and Tanzania in November 2023. The attackers employed a diverse set of tools for this activity, including leveraging the MuddyC2Go infrastructure. Additionally, they utilized the SimpleHelp remote...

Iranian Hackers Using MuddyC2Go in Telecom Espionage Attacks Across Africa

The Iranian nation-state actor known as MuddyWater has leveraged a newly discovered command-and-control C2 framework called MuddyC2Go in its attacks on the telecommunications sector in Egypt, Sudan, and Tanzania. The Symantec Threat Hunter Team, part of Broadcom, is tracking the activity under th...