{"id":4101,"date":"2025-05-21T07:05:23","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T07:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/21\/south-asian-ministries-hit-by-html\/"},"modified":"2025-05-21T07:05:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T07:05:23","slug":"south-asian-ministries-hit-by-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/21\/south-asian-ministries-hit-by-html\/","title":{"rendered":"South Asian Ministries Hit by SideWinder APT Using Old Office Flaws and Custom Malware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    South Asian Ministries Hit by SideWinder APT Using Old Office Flaws and Custom Malware<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>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.<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<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2025\/05\/south-asian-ministries-hit-by.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. &#8220;The attackers used spear phishing emails paired with geofenced payloads to ensure that only victims [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-4101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thehackersnews","tag-thehackersnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}