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POWERSTATS

IR · IranMuddyWaterconfidence · high

PowerShell backdoor family attributed to MuddyWater in joint CISA/FBI/CNMF/NCSC-UK advisory AA22-055A, which catalogues POWERSTATS, Small Sieve, Mori, Canopy/Starwhale and PowGoop tooling used since approximately 2018 by this MOIS subordinate APT group (also tracked as Static Kitten, Mango Sandstorm, MERCURY, Seedworm, TEMP.Zagros).

family
POWERSTATS
first seen
Feb 23, 2022
publisher
CISA
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