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The Growing Danger of Blind Eagle: One of Latin America’s Most Dangerous Cyber Criminal Groups Targe ...
By rohann@checkpoint.com
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Executive Summary
Check Point Research (CPR) has uncovered a series of ongoing, targeted cyber campaigns by Blind Eagle (APT-C-36)—one of Latin America’s most dangerous threat actors
Days after Microsoft released a fix for CVE-2024-43451, the group began employing a comparable technique involving harmful .url files, showing how attackers can turn security updates into weapons against their victims
CPR found over 9,000 infections in just one week
Attacks leverage trusted platforms like Google Drive, Dropbox, GitHub, and Bitbucket to distribute payloads, bypassing traditional security defenses…
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