Latin America

Pierluigi Paganini January 15, 2018
New KillDisk variant targets Windows machines in financial organizations in Latin America

A new variant of the infamous disk-wiper malware KillDisk has been spotted by malware researchers at Trend Micro while targeting financial organizations in Latin America. A new variant of the infamous disk-wiper malware KillDisk has been spotted by malware researchers at Trend Micro. This variant of KillDisk, tracked as TROJ_KILLDISK.IUB, was involved in cyber attacks against financial […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 23, 2017
Machete espionage campaign continues to target LATAM countries

The threat group behind the Machete cyber espionage campaign first spotted in 2014 continues to target entities in Spanish-speaking countries. According to the researchers at security firm Cylance Threat actors behind the cyber espionage campaign dubbed Machete continue to target entities in Spanish-speaking countries. The Machete campaign was first uncovered by the researchers at Kaspersky in August 2014 and […]