We observed a threat actor leveraging GitHub repositories to execute Braodo Stealer a Sophisticated Python based Stealer. The Author hosted all the necessary python packages to run the stealer within the GitHub repository. The infection layers included a Byte Order Marker (BOM), a type of obfuscator designed to make the victim believe it is a Chinese file.
From 24’ April’2025, We observed Pakistan-Aligned Threat Actor called as TransparentTribe spreading Phishing PPT & PDF in Pahalgam Attack Themes. Phishing PDF shows that the target might be an Indian Government along with the normal Victim people. Though the infection chain looks simple, the PDF and PPT seems very promising to lure the user to click on the links and has embedded login page asks for the credentials ‘gov.in’ and ‘nic.in’ mail ids.
Since 2022, attackers have installed infostealers and commodity malware remote access Trojans (RATs) such as Remcos, Formbook and AgentTesla using the DbatLoader (also known as ModiLoader). It spreads usually through phishing email carrying a malicious attachment.