ESET exposes new espionage activities by cyber criminals
ESET researchers have analyzed an espionage campaign targeting companies that is still active. The ongoing campaign, which bears the name Bandidos, is aimed specifically at IT infrastructures in Spanish-speaking countries. 90 percent of the detections are in Venezuela. In 2021 alone, ESET researchers saw more than 200 variants of the malware in Venezuela. However, the experts were unable to identify a specific economic sector that this campaign is targeting. Installed malicious Chrome extension "The Chrome Inject functionality is particularly interesting," says ESET researcher Fernando Tavella, who investigated the Bandidos campaign….