Mirage Kitten targets Middle East and Africa region with new malware

Key Takeaways

• Introduction Mirage Kitten – also known as UNC1549, Smoke Sandstorm, and Nimbus Manticore – is an advanced persistent threat (APT) group focused on cy.
• During recent threat research, we identified a previously undocumented malware set developed and used by Mirage Kitten.
• The toolset includes NightLedger, a new Windows backdoor for reconnaissance, command execution, file operations, process discovery, and screenshot cap.