A hacker group has spent the past seven years targeting countries in South America with malware campaigns, phishing attacks, and fake news organizations. Researchers at Cyphort and Citizen Lab, which is housed at the Munk School of Global Affairs, have given the hacker group the name Packrat based upon its preference for embedded remote access trojans and for its reliance on the same domains and servers over the course of several years. In total, Packrat has used at least 12 different command-and-control servers and 30 samples of malware, tools which are understood to be a significant factor behind the groups resolve.”]
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