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13519495260?profile=RESIZE_400xSideWinder, a likely India-based cyber-espionage group that has been active since 2012, recently ramped up attacks on organizations in the maritime and logistic sectors in Africa and Asia.  In many of the attacks, the threat group has used variously themed phishing emails to lure targets into clicking on a malicious document.  The document contains an exploit for CVE-2017-11882, a memory corruption vulnerability in Microsoft Office that SideWinder has used for years in its campaigns, to drop a p