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.Kaspersky discovered a new APT CloudSorcerer targeting Russian government entities and using cloud services as C2, just like the CloudWizard actor.
The report features the most significant developments relating to APT groups in Q1 2024, including the new malware campaigns DuneQuixote and Durian, and hacktivist activity.
We continue to report on the APT group ToddyCat. This time, we’ll talk about traffic tunneling, constant access to a target infrastructure and data extraction from hosts.
New unattributed DuneQuixote campaign targeting entities in the Middle East employs droppers disguised as Total Commander installer and CR4T backdoor in C and Go.