Quote:The advanced persistent threat group Lazarus with North Korean links has been observed using a modular backdoor during last week to compromise a series of Latin American financial institutions by Trend Micro's Lenart Bermejo and Joelson Soares.

As unearthed by the Trend Micro research team, the APT38 threat group successfully compromised a number of computing systems owned by multiple financial institutions from Latin America.
Lazarus used a backdoor malware to infiltrate their targets, with the malicious tool being discovered on the impacted systems sometime during last week.

This new Lazarus attack campaign discovered by Trend Micro is just as sophisticated as all the others the APT group was involved in, with highly complex malware tools designed to avoid detection and, when possible, render their victims computing systems unusable after successfully stealing funds or exfiltrating the data it targets.