Machete cyber espionage campaign targeting Latin America

  • 20 August 2014
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By: HNS Staff/ Posted on 20.08.2014
 
Kaspersky Lab discovered a new cyber-espionage campaign code-named Machete. This campaign has been targeting high profile victims, including government, military, law enforcement agencies and embassies for at least four years.


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The primary field of operation is Latin America: most of the victims appear to be located in Venezuela, Ecuador and Colombia; other affected countries include Russia, Peru, Cuba, and Spain.

The objective of the attackers is to hijack sensitive information from the compromised organizations – so far this threat actor has managed to successfully steal gigabytes of confidential data.

 
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