The various threat intelligence stories in this iteration of the Anomali Cyber Watch discuss the following topics: APT, Compromised websites, Education, Healthcare, Iran, Phishing, Ransomware, and Supply chain. The IOCs related to these stories are attached to Anomali Cyber Watch and can be used to check your logs for potential malicious activity.
Figure 1 - IOC Summary Charts. These charts summarize the IOCs attached to this magazine and provide a glimpse of the threats discussed.
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New MuddyWater Threat: Old Kitten; New Tricks
(published: December 8, 2022)
In 2020-2022, Iran-sponsored MuddyWater (Static Kitten, Mercury) group went through abusing several legitimate remote administration tools: RemoteUtilities, followed by ScreenConnect and then Atera Agent. Since September 2022, a new campaign attributed to MuddyWater uses spearphishing to deliver links to archived MSI files with yet another remote administration tool: Syncro. Deep Instinct researchers observed the targeting of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Oman, Qatar, Tajikistan, and United Arab Emirates.Analyst Comment: Network defenders are advised to establish a baseline for typical running processes and monitor for remote desktop solutions that are not common in the organization.MITRE ATT&CK: [MITRE ATT&CK] Phishing - T1566 | [MITRE ATT&CK] Remote Access Tools - T1219Tags: mitre-group:MuddyWater, actor:Static Kitten, actor:Mercury, Iran, source-country:IR, APT, Cyberespionage, Ministry of Intelligence and Security, detection:Syncro, malware-type:RAT, file-type:MSI, file-type:ZIP, OneHub, Windows
