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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...