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.
The same group is tracked under different names by different vendors.
| Vendor | Name |
|---|---|
| OSINT | Machete |
| OSINT | machete-apt |
| OSINT | APT-C-43 |
| OSINT | G0095 |
Sectors: Military, Government
Victim countries: Venezuela, Russia, Cuba, China, Belgium, Ecuador, Brazil, Spain, Germany, France, Colombia, Peru, Sweden, United States, Malaysia
No IOCs extracted yet from reports naming this actor.
Every report in the Global Intel Library that names El Machete, newest first. Open any report to see the full analysis with provenance.
No reports in the Lore library name this actor yet.
Indicators from free threat feeds (abuse.ch ThreatFox, AlienVault OTX) attributed to El Machete. Each row shows why it was linked and where it came from.
No feed indicators linked to this actor yet. Feeds are checked every hour.
Open-source reports about this actor collected from MISP Galaxy and MITRE ATT&CK.