Tropical Blend: Cyber & Politics Ramp Up Across Latin America

2026-06-03T20:51:40Z91aabc7689181f15de6dc0818dedf933e38a65a37a41f6ec364c542c5311473b
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What happened

Dark Reading roundup highlights a surge in diverse, active threats and systemic risks: China-linked espionage campaigns across Latin America targeting maritime/oil infrastructure; expansion of FBI-flagged phishing-as-a-service (Kali365) to AWS/Okta and device-code phishing; large-scale malvertising/traffic-distribution (DriveSurge) driving ClickFix/FakeUpdate infection chains; BTMOB RAT spreading in LatAm via MaaS; Megalodon campaign injecting malicious commits into thousands of GitHub repos; prompt-injection/notification abuse against Google Gemini; a coding/configuration flaw exposing some M

Why it matters

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Evidence and limitations

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darkreading
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91aabc7689181f15de6dc0818dedf933e38a65a37a41f6ec364c542c5311473b
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2026-06-03T20:51:40Z
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