APT-C-36 Updates Its Spam Campaign Against South American Entities With Commodity RATs


In 2019, Trend Micro researchers wrote a blog entry about a threat actor, likely based in Colombia, targeting entities in Colombia and other South American countries with spam emails. This threat actor is sometimes referred to as APT-C-36 or Blind Eagle. Since then, we have continued tracking this threat actor. In this blog entry, we share our new findings about APT-C-36’s ongoing spam campaign during that monitoring phase.

APT-C-36 has been known to send phishing emails to various entities in South America using publicly available remote access tools (RATs).

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Source: Tend Micro