El Machete
Also known as Machete, machete-apt, APT-C-43, G0095
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.
Targets: Military, Government, Venezuela, Russia, Cuba, China, Belgium, Ecuador, Brazil, Spain, Germany, France, Colombia, Peru, Sweden
CVEs in recent coverage
No CVEs named alongside this actor in the last 90 days.
Recent victims
No leak-site posts on record for this group.
ATT&CK techniques
Recent activity
No posts or advisories have named this actor recently.
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
- https://blog.360totalsecurity.com/en/apt-c-43-steals-venezuelan-military-secrets-to-provide-intelligence-support-for-the-reactionaries-hpreact-campaign/
- https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G0095
- https://www.welivesecurity.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/ESET_Machete.pdf
From the MISP threat-actor galaxy, MITRE ATT&CK and RansomLook (CC BY 4.0). Activity is any post or advisory Watch Floor collected that names the actor or one of its aliases.