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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: 13 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: 4 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

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

New Spear Phishing Campaign using Army Welfare Education Society’s Scholarship form

New Spear Phishing Campaign using Army Welfare Education Society’s Scholarship form

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes

Introduction: Researchers at Quick Heal Security Labs have uncovered a potential Spear Phishing campaign targeted against Indian Army personnel. In this attack, the attackers are using “Army Welfare Education Society” Scholarship form as lure. About AWES: Army Welfare Education...
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March 22, 2021

Turn the Page: Cybersecurity Predictions for 2021 & beyond

Turn the Page: Cybersecurity Predictions for 2021 & beyond

Estimated reading time: 2 minutes

Making accurate predictions, especially for cybersecurity needs years of experience — 2020 was a different situation altogether. Amidst many forecasts, no one predicted the onslaught of a global pandemic that would disrupt the world as we know it, baffling...
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February 18, 2021

RAT used by Chinese cyberspies infiltrating Indian businesses

RAT used by Chinese cyberspies infiltrating Indian businesses

Estimated reading time: 5 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

Attacks on the defence sector could prove very costly!

Attacks on the defence sector could prove very costly!

Estimated reading time: 2 minutes

In the current modern era of information warfare, securing military assets has become strategically very important. Recently, Seqrite reported on Operation ‘Honey Trap’, an operation launched by a Pakistan-linked threat actor allegedly, which targeted employees from Indian defence organizations....
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October 16, 2020

Operation SideCopy!

Operation SideCopy!

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes

An insight into Transparent Tribe’s sub-division which has been incorrectly attributed for years. Introduction Quick Heal’s threat intelligence team recently uncovered evidence of an advanced persistent threat (APT) against Indian defence forces. Our analysis shows that many old campaigns...
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September 23, 2020
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Gorgon APT targeting MSME sector in India

Gorgon APT targeting MSME sector in India

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes

From the past few months, we have been monitoring cyber-threats on MSME [Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises] sector within India. MSME sector is considered to be the backbone of the Indian economy. MSME employs around 40% of the country’s...
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August 10, 2020

Operation ‘Honey Trap’: APT36 Targets Defence Organizations in India

Operation ‘Honey Trap’: APT36 Targets Defence Organizations in India

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes

Summary In the last 3 months, we have noticed increased activity from APT36, a Pakistan-linked Cyber Threat actor. The target this time are personnel belonging to defence organizations & other Government organizations in India. In the recent wave of...
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July 8, 2020
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