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Thanks for joining us. Basically, this is part of a long term of research that we have done on this actor nexus that has been targeting

India and in this specific case it's also the fruit of our reach out to the community and it was actually another

researcher that came to us that he had some some information about these

these kind of operations and we partnership with him in order to make this research.

Our guest today are Asher Malholtra and Vittor Ventura, both security researchers with

Sisko Cisco Talos.

The research we're discussing today is titled

Operation Celestial Force employs mobile and desktop malware

to target Indian entities. It's kind of with our own research,

but we also engage a lot in the community

and this is kind of the outcome of that

collaboration with the community also. We've been tracking this campaign since about

2018 which is when we first published about a

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