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Advisory: Pahalgam Attack themed decoys used by APT36 to target the Indian Government

Advisory: Pahalgam Attack themed decoys used by APT36 to target the Indian Government

Estimated reading time: 6 minutes

Seqrite Labs APT team has discovered “Pahalgam Terror Attack” themed documents being used by the Pakistan-linked APT group Transparent Tribe (APT36) to target Indian Government and Defense personnel. The campaign involves both credential phishing and deployment of malicious payloads,...
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April 30, 2025

Umbrella of Pakistani Threats: Converging Tactics of Cyber-operations Targeting India

Umbrella of Pakistani Threats: Converging Tactics of Cyber-operations Targeting India

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...
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July 25, 2024

Pakistani APTs Escalate Attacks on Indian Gov. Seqrite Labs Unveils Threats and Connections

Pakistani APTs Escalate Attacks on Indian Gov. Seqrite Labs Unveils Threats and Connections

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...
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April 24, 2024

Operation RusticWeb targets Indian Govt: From Rust-based malware to Web-service exfiltration

Operation RusticWeb targets Indian Govt: From Rust-based malware to Web-service exfiltration

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...
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December 21, 2023

SideCopy’s Multi-platform Onslaught: Leveraging WinRAR Zero-Day and Linux Variant of Ares RAT

SideCopy’s Multi-platform Onslaught: Leveraging WinRAR Zero-Day and Linux Variant of Ares RAT

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...
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November 6, 2023

Double Action, Triple Infection, and a New RAT: SideCopy’s Persistent Targeting of Indian Defence

Double Action, Triple Infection, and a New RAT: SideCopy’s Persistent Targeting of Indian Defence

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...
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June 15, 2023

Transparent Tribe APT actively lures Indian Army amidst increased targeting of Educational Institutions

Transparent Tribe APT actively lures Indian Army amidst increased targeting of Educational Institutions

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...
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May 2, 2023

CetaRAT APT Group – Targeting The Government Agencies

CetaRAT APT Group – Targeting The Government Agencies

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes

CetaRAT was seen for the first time in the Operation SideCopy APT. Now it is continuously expanding its activity since then. We have been tracking this RAT for a long time and observed an increase in targeting the Indian...
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October 19, 2021

Seqrite uncovers second wave of Operation SideCopy targeting Indian critical infrastructure PSUs

Seqrite uncovers second wave of Operation SideCopy targeting Indian critical infrastructure PSUs

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes

The SideCopy APT Group has expanded its activity this year and now targets critical Indian sectors this time. Quick Heal Security Labs researchers have been tracking the notorious cyber-attack group – ‘Transparent Tribe’ since the first SideCopy campaign in...
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July 9, 2021

RAT used by Chinese cyberspies infiltrating Indian businesses

RAT used by Chinese cyberspies infiltrating Indian businesses

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes

A few months back, Delphibased malware was being distributed on multiple systems via SMB exploit. The payloads used by this malware have close similarities with open-source Gh0stRAT code. Gh0st has been used by Chinese threat actors to target multiple...
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December 18, 2020
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