Cara Lin
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MuddyWater using UDP-based backdoor ‘UDPGangster’ in Turkey, Israel and Azerbaijan campaigns
Fortinet FortiGuard Labs says MuddyWater has been using a UDP-based backdoor named UDPGangster to target users in Turkey, Israel and Azerbaijan via spear-phishing Word documents that rely on macros; the backdoor includes persistence mechanisms and extensive anti-analysis checks before contacting a UDP command-and-control server.
