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Pakistan-Linked SideCopy Targets Afghanistan Finance Ministry with Xeno RAT
Cybersecurity researchers revealed a spear-phishing campaign by the Pakistan-aligned SideCopy group targeting Afghanistan's Ministry of Finance using Xeno RAT. The attack involved a ZIP archive containing a malicious LNK file with a Pashto-language filename.
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