{
  "id": 9118503,
  "title": "SideCopy Broadens India Targeting to Academia With ReverseRAT Spear-Phishing",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/22/sidecopy-broadens-india-targeting-to-academia-with-reverserat-spear",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-22T07:52:03.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hacker News",
    "slug": "the-hacker-news",
    "url": "https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/sidecopy-broadens-india-targeting-to.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The threat actor known as SideCopy has been observed using spear-phishing lures to target academic institutions in India, expanding their strategic focus beyond government entities. \"SideCopy campaign operations typically initiate through spear-phishing campaigns that leverage the abuse of mshta.exe to execute malicious scripts and circumvent standard security protocols,\" Trellix researchers",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}