Pakistan-Linked SideCopy Targets Afghanistan Finance Ministry with Xeno RAT

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a spear-phishing campaign likely undertaken by the Pakistan-aligned SideCopy group targeting Afghanistan's Ministry of Finance with an open-source remote access trojan called Xeno RAT. "The campaign opens with a spear phishing delivery - a ZIP...

SentinelOne Uncovers Chinese Espionage Campaign Targeting Its Infrastructure and Clients

Cybersecurity company SentinelOne has revealed that a China-nexus threat cluster dubbed PurpleHaze conducted reconnaissance attempts against its infrastructure and some of its high-value customers. "We first became aware of this threat cluster during a 2024 intrusion conducted against an...

Cloudflare Warns of India-Linked Hackers Targeting South and East Asian Entities

An advanced threat actor with an India nexus has been observed using multiple cloud service providers to facilitate credential harvesting, malware delivery, and command-and-control C2. Web infrastructure and security company Cloudflare is tracking the activity under the name SloppyLemming, which ...

SideWinder’s Nim Backdoor Spells Trouble for South Asian Nations

Summary: SideWinder, also known as Razor Tiger, commenced its offensive operations in 2012 and has recently shifted its focus to targeting Bhutan. It employs deceptive content, ultimately executing the Nim Backdoor. The decoy content utilized in the sample is directly sourced from announcements...

Donot APT Group Targets Government and Military Orgs in South Asia

Threat Level Actor Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary The Donot group, also known as APT-Q-38, is a state-sponsored threat actor believed to operate out of a South Asian country. They primarily engage in network espionage activities targeting government...

Bitter APT Group Targets Chinese Energy Sector with New phishing Campaign

Threat Level Actor Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary A new cyber espionage campaign targeting the energy sector in China by the South Asian threat group Bitter APT. The campaign involves the use of social engineering tactics through phishing emails that...

APT-C-35 infection chain adds novel Windows framework modules

Threat Level Actor Report For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Summary APT-C-35 is an advanced persistent threat actor that has been active since 2016. The gang has upgraded its Windows spyware architecture, dubbed YTY, Jaca. They target South Asian government and military...

Targeted attack on Government Agencies

Targeted Attack on Government Agencies By Sushant Kumar Arya, Mohsin Dalla · July 13, 2022 Executive summary The Trellix Email Security Research Team has discovered a malicious campaign targeting government agencies of Afghanistan, India, Italy, Poland, and the United States since 2021. The attac...

Targeted attack on Government Agencies

Targeted Attack on Government Agencies By Sushant Kumar Arya, Mohsin Dalla · July 13, 2022 Executive summary The Trellix Email Security Research Team has discovered a malicious campaign targeting government agencies of Afghanistan, India, Italy, Poland, and the United States since 2021. The attac...

Chinese Hackers Exploited Sophos Firewall Zero-Day Flaw to Target South Asian Entity

A sophisticated Chinese advanced persistent threat APT actor exploited a critical security vulnerability in Sophos' firewall product that came to light earlier this year to infiltrate an unnamed South Asian target as part of a highly-targeted attack. "The attacker implemented an interesting web...

PlugX: A Talisman to Behold

PlugX: A Talisman to Behold By Max Kersten, Marc Elias, Leandro Velasco, and Alexandre Mundo Alguacil · March 28, 2022 For over a decade, the PlugX malware has been observed internationally with different variants found around the world. This blog covers a PlugX variant that we have named Talisma...

Researchers Uncover Android Spying Campaign Targeting Pakistan Officials

Two new Android surveillanceware families have been found to target military, nuclear, and election entities in Pakistan and Kashmir as part of a pro-India, state-sponsored hacking campaign. Dubbed Hornbill and Sunbird, the malware impersonates legitimate or seemingly innocuous services to cover...

Hackers-for-hire APT group found targeting businesses globally

By Deeba Ahmed A hackers-for-hire APT group is using a strain of yet undocumented malware and targeting South Asian firms in the CostaRicto campaign. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hackers-for-hire APT group found targeting businesses globally...