The interesting tale of the mysterious hacking group Careto

stapp · May 23, 2025

More than a decade ago, researchers at antivirus company Kaspersky identified suspicious internet traffic of what they thought was a known government-backed group, based on similar targeting and its phishing techniques.
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Careto was never publicly linked to a specific government. But TechCrunch has now learned that the researchers who first discovered the group were convinced that Spanish government hackers were behind Careto’s espionage operations
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After Careto went dark, neither Kaspersky nor any other cybersecurity company publicly reported detecting Careto again — until last year.
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Compared to the larger and more well-known government-backed hacking groups, like the North Korean Lazarus Group and China’s APT41, Kucherin said Careto is a “very small [advanced persistent threat] that surpasses all those large ones in complexity.”
“Their attacks are a masterpiece,” said Kucherin.
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https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/23/m...as-run-by-the-spanish-government-sources-say/

The first attack was mentioned here
https://www.wilderssecurity.com/thr...g-government-spy-malware.378956/#post-2518019

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