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Thank you. dot com backslash cyberwire. Hello everyone and welcome to the CyberWire's Research Saturday.

I'm Dave Bittner and this is our weekly conversation with researchers and analysts

tracking down the threats and vulnerabilities,

solving some of the hard problems and protecting ourselves in a rapidly evolving cyberspace.

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 information about these kind of operations and

we partnership with them in order to make this research. Our guests today are Ashir Mahaltra

and Vitor Ventura,

both security researchers with 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 of that collaboration with the community also. We've been tracking this campaign since about 2018, which is when we first published about a specific malvestrain

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