Pak Hackers Targeting Indian, Afghan Government, Military Officials: Report
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"The embedded files are tailored to target government and military officials based in Afghanistan and India," the report quoted Malwarebytes researcher Hossein Jazi as saying.
Pakistani hackers are targeting the Indian and Afghan governments, especially the military officials to steal sensitive Google, Twitter and Facebook credentials from its targets and stealthily obtain access to government officials, a report by thehackernews.com has revealed.
The portal said, "Malwarebytes' latest findings go into detail about the new tactics and tools adopted by the APT group known as SideCopy, which is so-called because of its attempts to mimic the infection chains associated with another group tracked as SideWinder and mislead attribution".
"The lures used by SideCopy APT are usually archive files that have embedded one of these files: LNK, Microsoft Publisher or Trojanized Applications," the report quoted Malwarebytes researcher Hossein Jazi as saying.
He added, "The embedded files are tailored to target government and military officials based in Afghanistan and India".
