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Introduction A security researcher from Seqrite Labs has uncovered a malicious campaign targeting U.S. citizens as Tax Day approaches on April 15. Seqrite Labs has identified multiple phishing attacks leveraging tax-related themes as a vector for social engineering, aiming...
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The Digital Personal Data Protection Act (DPDPA) is poised to redefine India’s cybersecurity and data protection landscape. The recent draft guidelines have sparked widespread discussions, especially among cybersecurity leaders responsible for safeguarding data and ensuring compliance. This blog explores...
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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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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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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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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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Legacy systems such as mainframes may be considered outdated by today’s standards but they continue to play major roles in many sectors, primarily finance, government, retail, healthcare and insurance. In these industries, they are crucial parts of day-to-day operations,...
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Quick Heal Labs have been tracking this Cyber-espionage operation since 2016. We have identified this attack as operation m_project. From the past year, we have seen a surge in these APT activities. Modus operandi of the attackers have remained...
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If there is one type of organization which is a favorite of cyber criminals worldwide, it is government institutions. The reasons for that are obvious: most governments, whether at the state or the federal level, are massive behemoths with...
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The latest form that war between two countries has taken is cyber attacks. Simply put, a cyber attack is a deliberate exploitation of computer systems, technology-dependent enterprises and networks. While, no clear definition of cyber attack has yet been...