Malicious Browser Extensions Infect Over 700 Users Across Latin America Since Early 2025

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new campaign targeting Brazilian users since the start of 2025 to infect users with a malicious extension for Chromium-based web browsers and siphon user authentication data. "Some of the phishing emails were sent from the servers of compromised...

Horabot Malware Targets 6 Latin American Nations Using Invoice-Themed Phishing Emails

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new phishing campaign that's being used to distribute malware called Horabot targeting Windows users in Latin American countries like Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Peru, Chile, and Argentina. The campaign is "using crafted emails that impersonate invoice...

Malicious code in scheme-latin-1-transcoder (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: ghsa-malware 0a7f07dcb389459e63b870f8bbac4884e86ab4b5b5e1b33fcbc42c6cdf5d91d4 Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be...

Grandoreiro Strikes Again: Geofenced Phishing Attacks Target LATAM

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DEBIAN-CVE-2025-21910

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: cfg80211: regulatory: improve invalid hints checking Syzbot keeps reporting an issue 1 that occurs when erroneous symbols sent from userspace get through into useralpha2 via regulatoryhintuser call. Such invalid regulatory...

UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21910

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: cfg80211: regulatory: improve invalid hints checking Syzbot keeps reporting an issue 1 that occurs when erroneous symbols sent from userspace get through into useralpha2 via regulatoryhintuser call. Such invalid regulatory...

The Espionage Toolkit of Earth Alux: A Closer Look at its Advanced Techniques

The cyberespionage techniques of Earth Alux, a China-linked APT group, are putting critical industries at risk. The attacks, aimed at the APAC and Latin American regions, leverage powerful tools and techniques to remain hidden while stealing sensitive data...

Dark Caracal Uses Poco RAT to Target Spanish-Speaking Enterprises in Latin America

The threat actor known as Dark Caracal has been attributed to a campaign that deployed a remote access trojan called Poco RAT in attacks targeting Spanish-speaking targets in Latin America in 2024. The findings come from Russian cybersecurity company Positive Technologies, which described the...

The Mask APT Resurfaces with Sophisticated Multi-Platform Malware Arsenal

A little-known cyber espionage actor known as The Mask has been linked to a new set of attacks targeting an unnamed organization in Latin America twice in 2019 and 2022. "The Mask APT is a legendary threat actor that has been performing highly sophisticated attacks since at least 2007," Kaspersky...

IT threat evolution Q3 2024

IT threat evolution in Q3 2024 IT threat evolution in Q3 2024. Non-mobile statistics IT threat evolution in Q3 2024. Mobile statistics Targeted attacks New APT threat actor targets Russian government entities In May 2024, we discovered a new APT targeting Russian government organizations...

New Grandoreiro Banking Malware Variants Emerge with Advanced Tactics to Evade Detection

New variants of a banking malware called Grandoreiro have been found to adopt new tactics in an effort to bypass anti-fraud measures, indicating that the malicious software is continuing to be actively developed despite law enforcement efforts to crack down on the operation. "Only part of this ga...

Banking Trojans: Mekotio Looks to Expand Targets, BBTok Abuses Utility Command

Notorious Mekotio and BBTok are having a resurgence targeting Latin American users. Mekotio’s latest variant suggests the gang behind it is broadening their target, while BBTok is seen abusing MSBuild.exe to evade detection...

Blind Eagle Hackers Exploit Spear-Phishing to Deploy RATs in Latin America

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a threat actor known as Blind Eagle that has persistently targeted entities and individuals in Colombia, Ecuador, Chile, Panama, and other Latin American nations. Targets of these attacks span several sectors, including governmental institutions,...

BlindEagle flying high in Latin America

BlindEagle, also known as "APT-C-36", is an APT actor recognized for employing straightforward yet impactful attack techniques and methodologies. The group is known for their persistent campaigns targeting entities and individuals in Colombia, Ecuador, Chile, Panama and other countries in Latin...

squid: Out-of-bounds write error may lead to Denial of Service

A flaw was found in Squid. An out-of-bounds write can be triggered when an Edge Side Includes ESI variable is assigned to a value not in the standard ASCII range, for example, multi-byte characters. This flaw allows a trusted server to crash Squid while processing an ESI response content, resulti...

Cybercriminals Exploit CrowdStrike Update Mishap to Distribute Remcos RAT Malware

Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, which is facing the heat for causing worldwide IT disruptions by pushing out a flawed update to Windows devices, is now warning that threat actors are exploiting the situation to distribute Remcos RAT to its customers in Latin America under the guise of providing a...

Mekotio Trojan Targets the Latin American Financial Sector

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Experts Warn of Mekotio Banking Trojan Targeting Latin American Countries

Financial institutions in Latin America are being threatened by a banking trojan called Mekotio aka Melcoz. That's according to findings from Trend Micro, which said it recently observed a surge in cyber attacks distributing the Windows malware. Mekotio, known to be actively put to use since 2015...

Mekotio Banking Trojan Threatens Financial Systems in Latin America

We’ve recently seen a surge in attacks involving the Mekotio banking trojan. In this blog entry, we'll provide an overview of the trojan and what it does...

Info Stealing Campaign Uses DLL Sideloading Through Legitimate Cisco Webex’s Binaries for Initial Execution and Defense Evasion

Info Stealing Campaign Uses DLL Sideloading Through Legitimate Cisco Webex’s Binaries for Initial Execution and Defense Evasion By Ale Houspanossian · June 17, 2024 Case Summary It was a quiet Monday morning in March 2024 when the EDR researchers with our Trellix Advanced Research Center identifi...