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Using romantic lures, which also find a mention in Facebook’s announcement about banning SideCopy from the platform, the Pakistan-based APT group targeted Indian defence personnel with archive file names such as -ĭashboard of the attacker’s system | Source: Malwarebytes India affected by Russian govt-backed Gmail phishing campaign Pakistani group targeted Indian defence personnel with file names such as nisha.zip Support our journalism by subscribing here. Those who read MediaNama are ahead of the curve. They also raise questions on the cybersecurity awareness of government and military officials.
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Such cyber attacks point to an emerging trend of a country’s critical infrastructure such as defence, power, and so on, being targeted. This was the only instance where Malwarebytes provided India-specific details in regards to what data was exfiltrated. Through these lures, in one instance Malwarebytes was able to find that SideCopy had gained access to a machine and “collected a lot of credentials from government and education services”. Designed and crafted to target specific victims.In a blog post titled, “SideCopy APT: Connecting lures to victims, payloads to infrastructure”, Hossein Jazi, a threat intelligence analyst at Malwarebytes said that Indian defence personnel including the Indian Army and National Cadet Corps (NCC) were targeted using archive (zip) files embedded with malicious applications. SideCopy, the Pakistan-based advanced-persistent threat (APT) group whose accounts were recently disabled by Facebook for targeting Afghanistan, has also targeted Indians - specifically defence personnel, Malwarebytes, an American Internet security company said.