Threat actor

MuddyWater

In 12 briefs, most recently 27 May 2026. RSS for this tag

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Coverage in DanSec Daily

  1. Charter Communications and 7-Eleven breaches by ShinyHunters, a 5,500-repo GitHub compromise via Megalodon malware, and a SharePoint zero-day patch from …
  2. The Foxconn ransomware breach, Fragnesia Linux kernel root exploit, and NGINX unauthenticated RCE flaw, plus Microsoft's May Patch Tuesday fixes.
  3. Canvas/Instructure breach exposing up to 275M students, DAEMON Tools supply chain backdoor, and a zero-day in Palo Alto PAN-OS firewalls.
  4. The TriZetto patient data breach, Transport for London breach, Iranian APT intrusions into US firms, and CISA's mandated iOS patching after Coruna exploit kit …
  5. Optimizely vishing breach, Vanta Diagnostics breach claimed by Everest ransomware, and actively exploited RoundCube Webmail flaws.
  6. Covers the BreachForums database leak exposing about 324,000 accounts, MuddyWater's Rust-based RustyWater RAT campaign, and Spain's Black Axe arrests.
  7. MuddyWater's new UDPGangster backdoor aimed at Turkey, Israel and Azerbaijan, and Portugal's cybercrime law update shielding good-faith security researchers.
  8. Cloudflare's record 29.7 Tbps Aisuru botnet DDoS, the Oracle E-Business Suite Clop campaign hitting universities, and WordPress King Addons plugin takeovers.
  9. Coupang breach exposing 33.7M users, Shai-Hulud 2.0 npm attack leaking 400,000 developer secrets, and North Korean threat actors renting engineers' identities …
  10. Magento/Adobe Commerce SessionReaper (CVE-2025-54236) mass compromise, MuddyWater Phoenix backdoor campaign, and SharePoint ToolShell exploitation by Chinese …
  11. Connex Credit Union breach hits 172,000 members; Citrix NetScaler CVE-2025-6543 exploited against Dutch critical orgs; BlackSuit ransomware infrastructure …
  12. Dell confirms World Leaks breach of its test lab and CrushFTP zero-day exposes 1,000+ servers; also SharePoint ToolShell zero-days hit US agencies, plus Dior …