SideWinder APT, a threat group with ties to India, is targeting high-profile entities and strategic infrastructures in the Middle East and Africa, using tactics like spear-phishing emails, malicious LNK files, and a post-exploitation toolkit called StealerBot. The attacks, attributed to SideWinder (also known as APT-C-17), are aimed at government, military, logistics, and financial entities across multiple countries. The group utilizes a sophisticated infection chain, including remote template injection and exploiting CVE-2017-11882, to deploy malware
By leveraging a backdoor loader module and a .NET-based implant named StealerBot, the attackers aim to conduct espionage activities such as capturing screenshots, stealing passwords, intercepting RDP credentials, and escalating privileges. Notably, SideWinder's geographical scope is expanding, and they utilize new tools as evidenced by their association with the Mythic post-exploitation framework and Transparent Tribe. The group's latest attacks indicate a shift towards targeting Linux environments, particularly in Indian government sectors. ```https://thehackernews.com/2024/10/sidewinder-apt-strikes-middle-east-and.html