{"id":228737,"date":"2026-01-10T21:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T03:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/muddywater-launches-rustywater-rat-via-spear-phishing-across-middle-east-sectors"},"modified":"2026-01-10T21:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T03:10:07","slug":"muddywater-launches-rustywater-rat-via-spear-phishing-across-middle-east-sectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/muddywater-launches-rustywater-rat-via-spear-phishing-across-middle-east-sectors","title":{"rendered":"MuddyWater Launches RustyWater RAT via Spear-Phishing Across Middle East Sectors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/muddywater-launches-rustywater-rat-via-spear-phishing-across-middle-east-sectors.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MuddyWater launched RustyWater, a Rust-based RAT, via spear-phishing Word macros targeting Middle East organizations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MuddyWater launched RustyWater, a Rust-based RAT, via spear-phishing Word macros targeting Middle East organizations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}