El Machete
No sourced public emblem in this profile.
reference profile · reported nexus: Unknown (not nationality)
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.
Source-reported aliases: Machete, machete-apt, APT-C-43, G0095. Associations do not prove equivalence.
Target geography
Catalog-listed countries (associations, not attack counts): Venezuela ·
Russia ·
Cuba ·
China ·
Belgium ·
Ecuador ·
Brazil ·
Spain ·
Germany ·
France ·
Colombia ·
Peru ·
Sweden ·
United States of America ·
Malaysia
No bound claim-post feed for this label.
Historical casebook
No dated record curated yet; absence does not establish inactivity.
Planned Kinwilder coverage
Tentative editorial review windows, contingent on evidence and review; not promised publication dates or predictions of attacks.
No assigned review window.
References
https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G0095/
https://securelist.com/el-machete/66108/
https://www.cylance.com/en_us/blog/el-machete-malware-attacks-cut-through-latam.html
https://www.cfr.org/interactive/cyber-operations/machete
https://threatvector.cylance.com/en_us/home/el-machete-malware-attacks-cut-through-latam.html