Director, Global Research & Analysis Team, Latin America
Dmitry Bestuzhev is Director of Kaspersky’s Global Research and Analysis Team in Latin America, where he oversees the company’s anti-malware and threat intelligence research by experts in the region. Dmitry joined Kaspersky in 2007 as a Malware Analyst, monitoring the local threat landscape and providing preliminary analysis. By 2008, he had become Senior Regional Researcher for the Latin American region and was appointed to his current role in 2010. In addition to overseeing anti-malware research and analysis work, Dmitry produces intelligence reports and forecasts for the region and is frequently sought out by international media and organizations for his expert commentary on IT security. Dmitry’s wide field of expertise covers everything from high profile attacks on financial institutions to traditional cybercrime underground activity. Dmitry is also an expert in corporate security, cyber-espionage and complex targeted attacks and participates in various educational initiatives throughout the Americas. Dmitry has more than two decades of experience in IT security across a wide variety of roles and is fluent in English, Spanish and Russian.While investigating an incident involving the BellaCiao .NET malware, Kaspersky researchers discovered a C++ version they dubbed “BellaCPP”.
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Kaspersky researchers analyze 2019, 2022 and 2024 attacks attributed to Careto APT with medium to high confidence.
The report features the most significant developments relating to APT groups in Q3 2024, including hacktivist activity, new APT tools and campaigns.