Showing posts with label Machete. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Machete. Show all posts

Striking a Blow against El Machete

Alfred Chung

There’s a renewed weapon of malware destruction in the fields of war, and it goes by the name “Machete.” A targeted attack campaign that kicked off in 2010 and now boasts an improved infrastructure, Machete has mostly hit victims in Ecuador and Venezuela, with a smattering of victims in other countries from the U.S. to Malaysia. Some of those affected are reportedly military and intelligence organizations, embassies, and government agencies.

Machete is cyber-espionage malware that can log keystrokes, capture audio from a computer’s microphone, grab geolocation data, and copy files to a remote server or even to a special USB device, among other things.