Security Researcher, Global Research & Analysis Team
Roberto Martinez joined Kaspersky’s Global Research and Analysis Team in April 2012. As Senior Security Researcher, he is responsible for monitoring and detecting new cyberthreats in Latin America through the analysis and forecasts of local trends, with a special focus on threat intelligence. He is a former security consultant and trainer for governments, the military, intelligence agencies, financial institutions and private corporations in Latin America and is a member of ALAPSI (Latin America Association of Information Security Professionals) and HTCIA (High Technology Crime Investigation Association). Roberto has extensive experience in the cybersecurity field, he’s worked as a penetration tester, digital forensics investigator, incident responder, malware analyst, threat hunter, and as a certified trainer. He studied at the University of Guadalajara and Universidad Tec Milenio (ITESM) and is fluent in English and Spanish.Lazarus targets employees of a nuclear-related organization with a bunch of malware, such as MISTPEN, LPEClient, RollMid, CookieTime and a new modular backdoor CookiePlus.
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.
Kaspersky analyzes SideWinder APT’s recent activity: new targets in the MiddleEast and Africa, post-exploitation tools and techniques.