{"id":5944,"date":"2025-10-28T05:12:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T05:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/10\/28\/sidewinder-adopts-new-clickonce-based-attack-chain-targeting-south-asian-diplomats\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T05:12:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T05:12:23","slug":"sidewinder-adopts-new-clickonce-based-attack-chain-targeting-south-asian-diplomats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/10\/28\/sidewinder-adopts-new-clickonce-based-attack-chain-targeting-south-asian-diplomats\/","title":{"rendered":"SideWinder Adopts New ClickOnce-Based Attack Chain Targeting South Asian Diplomats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bA European embassy located in the Indian capital of New Delhi, as well as multiple organizations in Sri Lanka, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, have emerged as the target of a new campaign orchestrated by a threat actor known as SideWinder in September 2025.<br \/>\nThe activity &#8220;reveals a notable evolution in SideWinder&#8217;s TTPs, particularly the adoption of a novel PDF and ClickOnce-based infection chain, in\u00a0A European embassy located in the Indian capital of New Delhi, as well as multiple organizations in Sri Lanka, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, have emerged as the target of a new campaign orchestrated by a threat actor known as SideWinder in September 2025.<br \/>\nThe activity &#8220;reveals a notable evolution in SideWinder&#8217;s TTPs, particularly the adoption of a novel PDF and ClickOnce-based infection chain, in\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bA European embassy located in the Indian capital of New Delhi, as well as multiple organizations in Sri Lanka, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, have emerged as the target of a new campaign orchestrated by a threat actor known as SideWinder in September 2025. The activity &#8220;reveals a notable evolution in SideWinder&#8217;s TTPs, particularly the adoption of&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/10\/28\/sidewinder-adopts-new-clickonce-based-attack-chain-targeting-south-asian-diplomats\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SideWinder Adopts New ClickOnce-Based Attack Chain Targeting South Asian Diplomats<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5945,"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\/5944"}],"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=5944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}