{"id":8292,"date":"2026-06-02T10:11:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T10:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/pakistan-linked-sidecopy-targets-afghanistan-finance-ministry-with-xeno-rat\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T10:11:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T10:11:32","slug":"pakistan-linked-sidecopy-targets-afghanistan-finance-ministry-with-xeno-rat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/pakistan-linked-sidecopy-targets-afghanistan-finance-ministry-with-xeno-rat\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan-Linked SideCopy Targets Afghanistan Finance Ministry with Xeno RAT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a spear-phishing campaign likely undertaken by the Pakistan-aligned SideCopy group targeting Afghanistan&#8217;s Ministry of Finance with an open-source remote access trojan called Xeno RAT.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The campaign opens with a spear phishing delivery &#8211; a ZIP archive containing a malicious LNK file bearing a carefully crafted Pashto-language filename,&#8221;\u00a0Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a spear-phishing campaign likely undertaken by the Pakistan-aligned SideCopy group targeting Afghanistan&#8217;s Ministry of Finance with an open-source remote access trojan called Xeno RAT.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The campaign opens with a spear phishing delivery &#8211; a ZIP archive containing a malicious LNK file bearing a carefully crafted Pashto-language filename,&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a spear-phishing campaign likely undertaken by the Pakistan-aligned SideCopy group targeting Afghanistan&#8217;s Ministry of Finance with an open-source remote access trojan called Xeno RAT. &#8220;The campaign opens with a spear phishing delivery &#8211; a ZIP archive containing a malicious LNK file bearing a carefully crafted Pashto-language filename,&#8221;\u00a0Cybersecurity researchers have&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/pakistan-linked-sidecopy-targets-afghanistan-finance-ministry-with-xeno-rat\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pakistan-Linked SideCopy Targets Afghanistan Finance Ministry with Xeno RAT<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8293,"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\/8292"}],"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=8292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}