BlindEagle Targets Colombian Government Agency with Caminho and DCRAT

Description

A spear phishing campaign targeting a Colombian government agency under the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism was discovered in September 2025. The attack, attributed to BlindEagle, utilized a compromised email account within the organization to bypass security controls. The campaign employed a sophisticated multi-layer attack chain, including a fake web portal, nested JavaScript and PowerShell scripts, steganography, and the deployment of Caminho as a downloader for DCRAT. The attack leveraged legal-themed lures, in-memory execution, and abuse of legitimate services like Discord. BlindEagle's evolution in tactics and use of new tools like Caminho demonstrates their ongoing threat to Colombian institutions.