South Asian Ministries Hit by SideWinder APT Using Old Office Flaws and Custom Malware

High-level government institutions in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Pakistan have emerged as the target of a new campaign orchestrated by a threat actor known as SideWinder.
“The attackers used spear phishing emails paired with geofenced payloads to ensure that only victims in specific countries received the malicious content,” Acronis researchers Santiago Pontiroli, Jozsef Gegeny, and Prakas…

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Source: The Hacker News