{"id":140052,"date":"2022-06-01T13:03:50","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T18:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/sidewinder-hackers-plant-fake-android-vpn-app-in-google-play-store"},"modified":"2022-06-01T13:03:50","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T18:03:50","slug":"sidewinder-hackers-plant-fake-android-vpn-app-in-google-play-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/sidewinder-hackers-plant-fake-android-vpn-app-in-google-play-store","title":{"rendered":"SideWinder hackers plant fake Android VPN app in Google Play Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sidewinder-hackers-plant-fake-android-vpn-app-in-google-play-store2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Phishing campaigns attributed to an advanced threat actor called SideWinder involved a fake VPN app for Android devices published on Google Play Store along with a custom tool that filters victims for better targeting.<\/p>\n<p>SideWinder is an APT group that\u2019s been active since at least 2012, believed to be an actor of Indian origin with a relatively high level of sophistication.<\/p>\n<p>Security researchers at Kaspersky attributed close to 1,000 attacks to this group in the past two years. Among its primary targets are organizations in Pakistan, China, Nepal, and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phishing campaigns attributed to an advanced threat actor called SideWinder involved a fake VPN app for Android devices published on Google Play Store along with a custom tool that filters victims for better targeting. SideWinder is an APT group that\u2019s been active since at least 2012, believed to be an actor of Indian origin with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}