By Gerardo Corona Ocelot Team Context After the discovery of the self-proclaimed local group “Fenix”, the Cyber Threat Intelligence team at Metabase Q has identified a malware distribution campaign attributed to a cybercriminal group in the region known as CyberCartel. CyberCartel, has been active in Mexico and other Latin American countries, including Chile, since around …
By Gerardo Corona & Julio Vidal Ocelot Team Context Ransomware gangs have found a profitable market in LATAM, but they are not alone, they need region-based actors to provide them the initial access to the companies. These local groups create phishing campaigns based on the government activities during the year, like Tax season, testament month, …
Botnet Fenix: New botnet going after tax payers in Mexico and Chile Read More »
Salvador Mendoza – Research and Development Director, Metabase Q // Research Summary Have you heard of AirTag by Apple? It is a tracking device developed by Apple and designed to help people find misplaced objects. However, even when Apple states that AirTag technology is solely used for tracking objects, a growing number of malicious individuals …
Fernando Garcia & Dan Regalado Ocelot team Context The Metabase Q Security Operations Center (SOC) triages millions of alerts a day but a recent attempt to infect a customer’s network caught our attention. Although the customers’ endpoint detection and response security tools properly blocked the initial payload, the use of fake certificates to try to …
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By Jesus Dominguez & Gerardo Corona from Ocelot Team Context ATMs are a core part of the financial system, providing users access to their money anytime at different physical locations. Over the past few years, attacks on these devices have increased in sophistication, severity, and frequency, resulting in significant consequences for both financial institutions and …
By Bryan Gonzalez from Ocelot Team Introduction ImageMagick is a free and open-source software suite for displaying, converting, and editing image files. It can read and write over 200 image file formats and, therefore, is very common to find it in websites worldwide since there is always a need to process pictures for users’ profiles, …
ImageMagick: The hidden vulnerability behind your online images Read More »
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Every form of life has become completely extinct in different historical periods. From the extinction of dinosaurs to the glaciations and the disappearance of our fellow human ancestors. The emergence of a new link in the species chain, which has improved physically and neuronally, implies the later disappearance of the predecessor: there are no Neanderthals …
If you are reading this blog, it is because you, as well as a high percentage of the population, have started to look for information through the Internet, instead of books and printed media. We have seen this use of technology increase in the last two decades, but since 2020, its growth has been exponential. …
“Bullying”, “insistence”, and “deception”, are some ofthe words that characterize the digital life of children and adolescents. With theuse of social media, minors are exposed to these worrying behaviors that wemust confront. In recent years, the emergence of new social media platforms andthe subsequent strengthening of existing ones has brought great advantages forbringing people together, …
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