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Cybercriminals are targeting elections in India with influence campaigns

Issued by: Security Affairs

Resecurity has identified a spike of malicious cyber activity targeting the election in India, which is supported by multiple independent hacktivist groups who arrange cyber-attacks and publication of stolen personal identifiable information (PII) belonging to Indian citizens on the Dark Web. India, with a population of over 1.4 billion and a GDP of over 3.417…

Malware & Threats

Google Blocks Domains of Hack-for-Hire Groups in Russia, India, UAE

Issued by: Security Week

The internet giant has added more than 30 domains used by these threat groups to its Safe Browsing mechanism, which prevents users from accessing them. Hack-for-hire groups are often conflated with entities offering surveillance tools. Google has pointed out that surveillance vendors typically provide the tools needed for spying but leave it up to the…

Malware & Threats

Patchwork APT caught in its own web

Issued by: Blog Malwarebytes

Patchwork is an Indian threat actor that has been active since December 2015 and usually targets Pakistan via spear phishing attacks. In its most recent campaign from late November to early December 2021, Patchwork has used malicious RTF files to drop a variant of the BADNEWS (Ragnatela) Remote Administration Trojan (RAT). What is interesting among…

Malware & Threats

Acer Confirms Breach of Servers in Taiwan

Issued by: Security Week

Acer initially confirmed that some of its servers in India had been hacked after a group called Desorden claimed to have stolen more than 60 gigabytes of data from Acer India. The hackers claimed to have obtained information on millions of customers, login credentials used by thousands of retailers and distributors, and various corporate and…

Malware & Threats

Amnesty Links Indian Cybersecurity Firm to Spyware Attack on African Activist

Issued by: Security Week

In late 2019 and early 2020, ahead of the presidential elections in Togo, the Donot Team hacking group attempted to spy on a prominent Togolese human rights defender, but only managed to raise the victim’s suspicion. Active since at least 2012 and also tracked as APT-C-35, and SectorE02, Donot Team is mainly known for its…