Eastern European energy, defense firms subjected to updated MATA attacks

Organizations in the oil and gas and defense industries across Eastern Europe have been targeted by spear-phishing attacks leveraging a new iteration of the MATA backdoor framework from August 2022 to May 2023, according to BleepingComputer.

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