MUT-1244 targeting security researchers, red teamers, and threat actors

A threat actor tracked as MUT-1244 by DataDog researchers has been targeting academics, pentesters, red teamers, security researchers, as well as other threat actors, in order to steal AWS access keys, WordPress account credentials and other sensitive data. MUT-1244 has been using phishing emails, the ClickFix tactic, and GitHub repositories with bogus proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits or copies of legitimate, working exploits that have been backdoored or include a malicious npm package. But, they’ve also been … More

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