According to analysts, the APT group, which has ties to India, targeted Asian governments with phishing attacks.
Between June and November 2021, SideWinder, a suspected Indianorigin Advanced Persistent Threat APT, targeted 61 government, military, law enforcement
Between June and November 2021, SideWinder, a suspected Indianorigin Advanced Persistent Threat APT, targeted 61 government, military, law enforcement, and other organisations across Asia. The organisation is thought to be one of the oldest nationstate groups, having been active since at least 2012. Its initial attack vector is spear phishing, which involves sending phishing emails to victims that contain malicious attachments or URLs. Furthermore, the group was discovered to be behind phishing projects impersonating cryptocurrency companies, which is linked to recent attempts to regulate the crypto markets in India. GroupIB waited to share information about SideWinder APT to ensure it could enlist the entire SideWinder arsenal, retrieve data from backups, and reverse engineer the tools used by the group.
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B2B Tech News | 8 months ago