Costaricto APT: How does the new team discovered by Blackberry work?

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Costaricto

Her researchers Blackberry they found one hackers-for-hire team, The CostaRicto APT, which aims South Asian financial institutions and Companies entertainment around the world.

For the past six months, the BlackBerry research team has been monitoring one campaign espionage in cyberspace, aiming differently victims worldwide“, Say the researchers.

BlackBerry has named this team (and their campaign) CostaRicto and says it is an APT team that has personalized malware tools and advanced VPN proxy and SSH tunneling capabilities.

CostaRicto aims organizations around the world. However, most attacks have been detected in India, Bangladesh, Singapore and China. This may indicate that the APT team is based in South Asia.

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