El Machete Malware Attacks Cut Through LATAM
released on 2017-03-22 @ 06:02:21 PM
El Machete is one of these threats that was first publicly disclosed and named by Kaspersky. SPEAR was able to identify just over three hundred unique victims over the past month, as well as over 100GB worth of data that was exfiltrated and stored on one of the C2 servers. The bulk of the victims were predominantly based out of Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru, Argentina, and Columbia; however, other victims were identified in Korea, the United States, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Bolivia, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Mexico, England, Canada, Germany, Russia, and Ukraine. Targets included a wide array of high-profile entities, including intelligence services, military, utility providers (telecommunications and power), embassies, and government institutions.