Transparent Tribe Deploys New Rust Backdoor Using Private GitHub Repositories for C2

Transparent Tribe, a Pakistan-aligned threat group also known as APT36, has been linked to new attacks on government and defense entities in India and Afghanistan. Zscaler ThreatLabz reports the use of previously undocumented tools—RUSTYSHADE, RUSTYMOVE, PSNATCH, and BASHNATCH—in an operation codenamed Operation.