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China-Linked Hackers Target Indian Taxpayers with Fake Tax Tool

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from The Hacker News ·

A suspected China-nexus group is targeting Indian taxpayers and finance professionals with spear-phishing emails impersonating the Income Tax Department. The campaign, dubbed Operation DragonReturn, delivers DcRAT remote access trojan to steal sensitive data. Seqrite Labs uncovered the multi-stage attack aimed at compromising financial systems.

Meridian48 take
The campaign underscores how nation-state actors exploit tax season stress to breach financial data, but attribution remains circumstantial.
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