(MENAFN) As part of a wide-ranging cyber espionage campaign against five Middle East nations, Saudi Arabia has been targeted heavily as well as several countries outside the region, a report said quoting a Saudi agency.
The kingdom had been hit by a hacking campaign bearing the technical hallmarks of an attack group dubbed "MuddyWater" by US cyber firm Palo Alto Networks, The National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) of Saudi Arabia said in a statement
Palo Alto's Unit 42 threat research unit published a report last Friday showing how a string of connected attacks this year used decoy documents with official-looking government logos to lure unsuspecting users from targeted organizations to download infected documents and compromise their computer networks.
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