South Asian Ministries Hit by SideWinder APT Using Old Office Flaws and Custom Malware

High-level government institutions in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Pakistan have emerged as the target of a new campaign orchestrated by a threat actor known as SideWinder.
« The attackers used spear phishing emails paired with geofenced payloads to ensure that only victims in specific countries received the malicious content, » Acronis researchers Santiago Pontiroli, Jozsef Gegeny, and Prakas