Pakistan among least affected by web threats

At its annual Cyber Security Weekend for the Middle East, Turkiye and Africa (META) region, the Kaspersky Global Research and Analysis Team presented cybersecurity trends, including ransomware, advanced persistent threats (APTs), supply chain attacks, mobile threats, artificial intelligence and IoT Read More …

SideWinder targets the maritime and nuclear sectors with an updated toolset

Last year, Kaspersky researchers published an article about SideWinder, a highly prolific APT group whose primary targets have been military and government entities in Pakistan, Sri Lanka, China, and Nepal. In the article, they described activities that had mostly happened Read More …

Beyond the Surface: the evolution and expansion of the SideWinder APT group

SideWinder, aka T-APT-04 or RattleSnake, is one of the most prolific APT groups that began its activities in 2012 and was first publicly mentioned by us in 2018. Over the years, the group has launched attacks against high-profile entities in Read More …

The distinctive rattle of APT SideWinder

In February 2023, Group-IB’s Threat Intelligence team released a technical report about previously unknown phishing attacks conducted by the APT group SideWinder: Old Snake, New Skin: Analysis of SideWinder APT activity between June and November 2021. As always, Group-IB customers Read More …

First Active Attack Exploiting CVE-2019-2215 Found on Google Play, Linked to SideWinder APT Group

Trend Micro found three malicious apps in the Google Play Store that work together to compromise a victim’s device and collect user information. One of these apps, called Camero, exploits CVE-2019-2215, a vulnerability that exists in Binder (the main Inter-Process Read More …