{"id":241744,"date":"2026-07-29T00:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T05:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/nimbus-manticore-deploys-nightledger-and-turns-victim-systems-into-covert-relays"},"modified":"2026-07-29T00:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T05:12:09","slug":"nimbus-manticore-deploys-nightledger-and-turns-victim-systems-into-covert-relays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/nimbus-manticore-deploys-nightledger-and-turns-victim-systems-into-covert-relays","title":{"rendered":"Nimbus Manticore Deploys NightLedger and Turns Victim Systems Into Covert Relays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nimbus-manticore-deploys-nightledger-and-turns-victim-systems-into-covert-relays.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Iranian state-backed hacking group tracked as <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/05\/iranian-hackers-deploy-minifast-and.html\" target=\"_blank\">Nimbus Manticore<\/a><\/strong> (aka GalaxyGato, Mirage Kitten, Smoke Sandstorm, Subtle Snail, and UNC1549) has been attributed to a fresh set of attacks targeting entities across the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia.<\/p>\n<p>The intrusions involve the use of a previously undocumented Windows backdoor called NightLedger and two custom WebSocket tunnelers, BridgeHead and ArcBridge, with an aim to maintain covert access.<\/p>\n<p>Targets of the campaign include Egypt, SMB and government environments in Jordan and Tanzania, aviation organizations in Pakistan, telecommunication companies in Ethiopia, and financial-sector entities in Burkina Faso, per Kaspersky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Iranian state-backed hacking group tracked as Nimbus Manticore (aka GalaxyGato, Mirage Kitten, Smoke Sandstorm, Subtle Snail, and UNC1549) has been attributed to a fresh set of attacks targeting entities across the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia. The intrusions involve the use of a previously undocumented Windows backdoor called NightLedger and two custom WebSocket [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,45,1490,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-finance","category-government","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241744","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=241744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}