Sidewinder Hacker Group Using Weaponized Documents to Deliver Malware

Sidewinder APT group’s sophisticated threat landscape reveals a skilled and persistent threat targeting the Nepalese Government entities. 

Their focus extends to South Asian governments, with researchers also identifying a recent complex attack on Bhutan.

Cybersecurity researchers at Cyfirma recently identified that the operators of the Sidewinder hacker group are actively using weaponized documents to deliver backdoors.

Here below we have mentioned all the other names of the Sidewinder APT group:-

• Rattlesnake


• Hardcore Nationalist


• HN2


• APT Q4


• RAZOR Tiger


• APT Q39 …

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