SideWinder Launched Nearly 1000 Assaults in Two Years

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The South Asian APT organization SideWinder has been on a tear for the past two years gone, launching nearly 1,000 raids and deploying increasingly sophisticated assault techniques. 

Earlier this week, Noushin Shaba, a senior security researcher at Kaspersky shared her findings at the Black Hat Asia conference regarding SideWinders’ attacking methodologies. The APT group primarily targets military and law enforcement agencies in Pakistan, Bangladesh, and other South Asian countries.

SideWinder has been active since at least 2012 and primarily targets military and law enforcement agencies in Pakistan, Bangladesh, and other South Asian countries. In recent years, they have also targeted departments of Foreign Affairs, Scientific and Defence organizations, Aviation, IT industry, and Legal firms. Some of their newly registered domains and spear-phishing documents indicate this threat actor is expanding the geography of its targets to other countries and regions. 

SideWinder has become one of the planet’s most prolific hacking groups by expanding the geography of its targets to other count

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