Estimated reading time: 10 minutes
Contents Introduction Key Targets Industries Affected Geographical focus Infection Chain. Initial Findings Looking into the decoy-document Technical Analysis Stage 1 – Malicious ISO File Stage 2 – Malicious LNK File Stage 3 – Final Payload: FALSECUB Infrastructure & Attribution...
Estimated reading time: 7 minutes
Authors: Sathwik Ram Prakki and Kartikkumar Jivani Contents Introduction Key Targets Industries Geographical Focus Infection and Decoys Technical Analysis PowerShell Stage Persistence Configuration Infrastructure and Attribution Conclusion SEQRITE Protection IOCs MITRE ATT&CK Introduction SEQRITE Labs has identified a campaign...
Estimated reading time: 13 minutes
Seqrite Labs APT team has uncovered new tactics of Pakistan-linked SideCopy APT deployed since the last week of December 2024. The group has expanded its scope of targeting beyond Indian government, defence, maritime sectors, and university students to now...
Estimated reading time: 16 minutes
An open directory hosting malware linked to Transparent Tribe (APT36) has been found by SEQRITE Labs APT team. Further analysis revealed hidden URLs on the same domain containing payloads used by its sub-division APT group SideCopy. Targeting of Indian...
Estimated reading time: 11 minutes
In the recent past, cyberattacks on Indian government entities by Pakistan-linked APTs have gained significant momentum. Seqrite Labs APT team has discovered multiple such campaigns during telemetry analysis and hunting in the wild. One such threat group, SideCopy, has...
Estimated reading time: 11 minutes
SEQRITE Labs APT-Team has uncovered a phishing campaign targeting various Indian government personnel since October 2023. We have also identified targeting of both government and private entities in the defence sector over December. New Rust-based payloads and encrypted PowerShell commands have been utilized...
Estimated reading time: 11 minutes
SEQRITE Labs APT-Team has discovered multiple campaigns of APT SideCopy, targeting Indian government and defense entities in the past few months. The threat group is now exploiting the recent WinRAR vulnerability CVE-2023-38831 (See our advisory for more details) to...
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes
Overview A new attack campaign of SideCopy APT has been discovered targeting the Indian Defence sector. The group utilizes phishing email attachments & URLs as the infection vector to download malicious archive files leading to the deployment of two...
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes
Overview APT Transparent Tribe (APT36) is luring the Indian Army into opening the malicious file themed ‘Revision of Officers posting policy.’ Quick Heal’s APT Team has been constantly tracking this persistent threat group and has encountered a new attack...
Estimated reading time: 6 minutes
Since the infamous Conti ransomware group disbanded due to source code leaks during the Russia-Ukraine war, the LockBit group has claimed dominance. The group has adopted new extortion techniques and added a first-of-its-kind bug-bounty program, along with many features,...