aaron boyd associate editor with federal times sat dow director of cyber egs pee nauj analysis -- espionageanalysis to learn more about a recent hacking campaign against india. >> what we're looking at is a pakistani based threat actor group or cyber espionage group targeting the indian government. they used a method that's actually very typical among cyber espionage world wide and especially typical in south asia where they took a document, a beenal document that they probably downloaded off the internet. in this case it was a information on pay scales, military pay scales or government pay skals. they weaponized it or basically put code in it that would allow it to open up a vulnerability in a system. and attached it to an email. a spear fishing social engineering email and sent it to indian government users. it's actually a very typical method. as, you know, a user would see something that aassociated with their pay scale that might find very interesting. it's a method we've seen -- for instance chinese operators used against the united states government. i've seen it used by just about