BREEZE COMETThreat actor
- unc5669
BREEZE COMET is a financially motivated threat actor targeting Brazilian financial services, retail, and eCommerce organizations through compromised websites, custom malware, and stolen credentials to manipulate payment systems and execute fraudulent transfers.From MISP Galaxy
Last reported 1 month ago, by Risky Business News2 reports
ATT&CK techniques
6 of 8 · each with the sentence it comes from- T1110.003Password Spraying
“AWS password spraying campaign: A password spraying campaign has targeted the root user accounts of AWS tenants.”
- T1684Social Engineering
“Spring Ring campaign: A hacking group has targeted more than 150 employees across at least 10 companies as part of a coordinated social engineering campaign.”
- T1021.001Remote Desktop Protocol
“BREEZE COMET abuses standard protocols to navigate the network, using hijacked service accounts to initiate unauthorized Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) sessions and execute commands via SMB network file shares.”
- T1027.017SVG Smuggling
“SVG smuggling campaign: Kaseya's INKY team has spotted a massive email spam campaign using SVG smuggling to assemble a phishing page right in the user's browser.”
- T1036Masquerading
“This artifact hides backdoor traffic by masquerading as a legitimate web server, only activating its C2 functionalities when it receives a specific session cookie.”
- T1053.005Scheduled Task
“The group supplements KICKPLATE by abusing native scheduled tasks (schtasks.exe running as SYSTEM) and malicious shortcut (.lnk) modifications in user startup folders.”
Reports per month
last 12 monthsOctober so far (hatched). Counted by report, not by story.
What the reports say
2 reports, newest first · the exact sentence from each-
Risky Bulletin: BGP hijack targets Virtualizor to deliver malicious updates“BREEZE COMET profile: Google has published a profile on BREEZE COMET, an e-crime group that has been targeting organizations tapped into Brazil's payment systems (Pix, STR, and Boleto) since 2024 to steal funds right from the source.”
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Financially Motivated Threat Actor BREEZE COMET Targets Brazil“Financially Motivated Threat Actor BREEZE COMET Targets Brazil”
Indicators in its reports
named in the reports above- dontpad[.]comin 1 report
- 3b22605244dbace8…a2759d27ceecin 1 report
- 2214907e696bad85…74441200439ain 1 report
- c0db6ddd6222d02a…24458646d78ain 1 report
- 6d4012e0dd3b56a3…882d1d1c6cebin 1 report
- f139b4ca15feffb7…8fe4fa14db4fin 1 report
- 51fdd83b3737add7…d1ae4b403ce6in 1 report
- d2aa40cc53b40c6e…d66aeef92a66in 1 report
- 447e3a131e62bd33…36a3c4f244e8in 1 report
- hxxps://procon.go.gov[.]br/ComprovantePDF.exein 1 report
- procon.go.gov[.]brin 1 report
- hxxps://cmgovernadorluizrocha.ma.gov[.]br/Comprovantepdf.exein 1 report
- cmgovernadorluizrocha.ma.gov[.]brin 1 report
- hxxp://gcm.setelagoas.mg.gov[.]br/files/ti.zipin 1 report
- gcm.setelagoas.mg.gov[.]brin 1 report
- hxxp://gcm.setelagoas.mg.gov[.]br/files/notepadd.exein 1 report
- hxxp://gcm.setelagoas.mg.gov[.]br/files/tes.exein 1 report
- hxxps://minacu.go.gov[.]br/ComprovantePDF.exein 1 report
- minacu.go.gov[.]brin 1 report
- hxxps://conseg.ssp.go.gov[.]br/COAF-POLICIAFEDERAL.exein 1 report
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