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Overview: In our rapidly advancing technological landscape, cyber threat actors have grown increasingly sophisticated, employing intricate attack chains and malicious applications. They meticulously plan and execute well-defined, strategic attacks that unfold in stages. A typical malware attack comprises various...
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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 In the 1990s, as the internet gained popularity, cybercriminals started developing and distributing basic forms of malware, including password stealers. Early stealer malware primarily targeted login credentials and passwords for online services and email accounts. As technology advanced,...
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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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Overview APT Transparent Tribe (APT36) is luring the Indian Army into opening the malicious file themed ‘Revision of Officers posting policy.’ Quick Heal’s APT Team has been constantly tracking this persistent threat group and has encountered a new attack...
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Threat actors use multiple methods to distribute malware to infect specific targets. Even though various phishing methods are actively used and evolving, an alternative approach to increase their success rate is to call the target corporate companies. Techniques like...
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We all are aware of the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine. As the physical war takes place on the ground, it also gives rise to cyberattacks against Russia and Ukraine. We are seeing an increase in malicious cyber...
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Quick Heal Security Labs has been monitoring various attack campaigns using JSOutProx RAT against different SMBs in the BFSI sector since January 2021. We have found multiple payloads being dropped at different stages of its operations. Although the...
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CetaRAT was seen for the first time in the Operation SideCopy APT. Now it is continuously expanding its activity since then. We have been tracking this RAT for a long time and observed an increase in targeting the Indian...
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The dual extension or double extension is one of the oldest forms of cyber-attacks but continues to be extremely effective. The reason for the continued effectiveness of this type of attack lies in its simplicity. File extensions are so...