Tag: Venezuela

ESET Research discovers Bandidos, a new spying campaign in Venezuela

July 7, 2021

The latest version of Bandook steals sensitive documents and credentials from corporate networks, creates a malicious Chrome extension, and misuses URL shorteners like Rebrandly and Bitly. ESET Research has recently uncovered a new and still active campaign that uses more advanced versions of the old crimeware Bandook to spy on its victims. The ongoing campaign … More ESET Research discovers Bandidos, a new spying campaign in Venezuela

‘Machete’ cyberattack strikes Venezuela

August 7, 2019

ESET research uncovers a cyberespionage operation targeting Venezuelan government institutions. Latin America is often overlooked when it comes to persistent threats and groups with politically motivated targets. There is, however, an ongoing case of cyberespionage against high-profile organizations that has managed to stay under the radar. The group behind these attacks has stolen gigabytes of … More ‘Machete’ cyberattack strikes Venezuela

Operation Liberpy: Keyloggers and information theft in Latin America

July 15, 2015

In mid-April 2015, ESET’s Laboratory in Latin America received a report on an executable program named “Liberty2-0.exe” detected by us as Python/Liberpy.A. It was a keylogger, a threat that undermines the security of a system by reporting all keyboard events (keys the user presses), as well as mouse movements, to a server controlled by the … More Operation Liberpy: Keyloggers and information theft in Latin America