{"id":4379,"date":"2025-05-20T13:11:26","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T13:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/05\/20\/south-asian-ministries-hit-by-sidewinder-apt-using-old-office-flaws-and-custom-malware\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T13:11:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T13:11:26","slug":"south-asian-ministries-hit-by-sidewinder-apt-using-old-office-flaws-and-custom-malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/05\/20\/south-asian-ministries-hit-by-sidewinder-apt-using-old-office-flaws-and-custom-malware\/","title":{"rendered":"South Asian Ministries Hit by SideWinder APT Using Old Office Flaws and Custom Malware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bHigh-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.<br \/>\n&#8220;The attackers used spear phishing emails paired with geofenced payloads to ensure that only victims in specific countries received the malicious content,&#8221; Acronis researchers Santiago Pontiroli, Jozsef Gegeny, and Prakas\u00a0High-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.<br \/>\n&#8220;The attackers used spear phishing emails paired with geofenced payloads to ensure that only victims in specific countries received the malicious content,&#8221; Acronis researchers Santiago Pontiroli, Jozsef Gegeny, and Prakas\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bHigh-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. &#8220;The attackers used spear phishing emails paired with geofenced payloads to ensure that only victims in specific countries received the malicious content,&#8221; Acronis researchers Santiago Pontiroli, Jozsef Gegeny, and&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/05\/20\/south-asian-ministries-hit-by-sidewinder-apt-using-old-office-flaws-and-custom-malware\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">South Asian Ministries Hit by SideWinder APT Using Old Office Flaws and Custom Malware<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4379"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}