Iran-Linked MuddyWater Targets 100+ Organisations in Global Espionage Campaign

The Iranian nation-state group known as MuddyWater has been attributed to a new campaign that has leveraged a compromised email account to distribute a backdoor called Phoenix to various organizations across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, including over 100 government entities.
The end goal of the campaign is to infiltrate high-value targets and facilitate intelligence gathering