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Cybersecurity2 min readMay 26, 2026

MuddyWater Uses DLL Side-Loading in Espionage Campaign Targeting 9 Countries

The Iranian state-sponsored threat actor MuddyWater is conducting a widespread espionage campaign across nine countries using DLL side-loading, a technique that tricks legitimate applications into loading malicious code, making the attack harder to detect

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