- Category
- Criminal · Financially motivated: ransomware, fraud and theft.
- Origin
- Unknown
- Motivation
- Financial crime
- Seen
- 2018
- Sources
- 7 sources carry it
- Identifier
- GINC-APT-0226 · odyssey-spider
What it is
Since 2018, security researchers tracked a financially-motivated cybercrime actor, TA558, targeting hospitality, travel, and related industries located in Latin America and sometimes North America, and western Europe. The actor sends malicious emails written in Portuguese, Spanish, and sometimes English. The emails use reservation-themed lures with business-relevant themes such as hotel room bookings. The emails may contain malicious attachments or URLs aiming to distribute one of at least 15 different malware payloads.
Names
The names each vendor, agency and source gives it. Naming differs by who tracks the actor, so one group carries many.
- Proofpoint
- TA558
- Other names
- CapturaTela, Loda
Targets
- Countries
- Algeria, Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Czech, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Germany, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Lebanon, Macedonia, Mexico, Morocco, Pakistan, Peru, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Thailand, Türkiye, United States, Uruguay
- Sectors
- Construction, Education, Energy, Financial, Government, Hospitality, Industrial, IT, Pharmaceutical, Transportation
Tools
The tools and malware families the sources tie to it.
- AZORult
- Archelaus Beta
- AsyncRAT
- Cyber Eye RAT
- CyberGate
- Loda
- RemcosRAT
- RevengeRAT
- Vjw0rm
- XtremeRAT
- njRAT
Sources
- ETDA Threat Group Card apt.etda.or.th
- Malpedia malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de