El Machete is an espionage group with suspected backing from Unknown. Public reporting links it to attacks on military and government organisations, with 15 countries and victims named. This free profile brings together what is known about it, so you can judge the risk to you.
El Machete has 4 other names in security research. Below is what published reporting says about it, with a link to every report so you can check the detail yourself.
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What public reporting says
El Machete is one of these threats that was first publicly disclosed and named by Kaspersky here. We’ve found that this group has continued to operate successfully, predominantly in Latin America, since 2014. All attackers simply moved to new C2 infrastructure, based largely around dynamic DNS domains, in addition to making minimal changes to the malware in order to evade signature-based detection.
Public reports about El Machete (6)
The sectors and places named in public reporting about this group. If yours is on the list, it is worth knowing how they work and which flaws they use.
Countries and victims named (15)
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El Machete is an espionage group with suspected backing from Unknown. Public reporting links it to attacks on military and government organisations, with 15 countries and victims named.
Public reporting places El Machete as a group with suspected backing from Unknown. Attribution is never certain: it rests on the tools, infrastructure and targets researchers have seen.
In public reporting, sectors named include military and government, and 15 countries and victims are named, including Venezuela, Russia, Cuba and China.
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