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