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SideWinder’s Multiphase Polymorphic Attack Hits Pakistan and Turkey: Exploring the Impact and Scope of the Incident

Nguyen Michael2 years ago03 mins

India’s SideWinder advanced persistent threat group (APT) has expanded its target range beyond Southeast Asia to include Pakistani government officials and individuals in Turkey, according to researchers at BlackBerry Threat Research and Intelligence team. The group uses polymorphism techniques to bypass traditional signature-based antivirus detection to deliver a next-stage payload. The attacks use content-targeted documents…

Malware Misdirection: Attackers Using Popular CDNs as Cover

Nguyen Michael2 years ago05 mins

Attackers Misusing Cloud Services and CDNs to Spread Malware A recent report by Netskope has highlighted that attackers are increasingly using cloud services and content delivery networks (CDNs) to deliver malware. The report found that attackers are utilising widely used cloud services and applications to deliver malware and masking their post-infection activities by routing them…