Silver Fox Hackers Attacking Indian Entities with Income Tax Phishing Lures

Silver Fox Targets Indian Users With Tax-Themed Emails Delivering ValleyRAT Malware

The threat actor known as Silver Fox has turned its focus to India, using income tax-themed lures in phishing campaigns to distribute a modular remote access trojan called ValleyRAT (aka Winos 4.0). "This sophisticated attack leverages a complex kill chain involving DLL hijacking and the modular Valley RAT to ensure persistence," CloudSEK researchers Prajwal Awasthi and Koushik Pal said in an

Silver Fox Hackers Attacking Indian Entities with Income Tax Phishing Lures

Chinese threat actors operating under the name Silver Fox are targeting Indian organizations through sophisticated phishing campaigns that impersonate legitimate income tax documents. The attack campaign uses authentic-looking Income Tax Department emails to trick users into downloading a malicious executable disguised as a tax-related file. Once clicked, victims are redirected to a command-and-control server, which […] The post Silver Fox Hacke…