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Security & Strategic Review - August 2014 (ISSN 1741-4202)

REGION: ‘Simple’ cyber attacks target Latin America

Venezuela, Ecuador and Colombia have been among the main targets of a cyber-espionage campaign codenamed Machete, according to the Russian firm Karspersky Lab. Other Latin American countries affected by Machete are Brazil, Peru and Cuba. Some countries outside the region have also been targeted, but in many of these cases the individual targets had some connection with Latin America — in Russia it was the embassy of a country from the region.

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