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BlindEagle Hackers Attacking Government Agencies with Powershell Scripts

ID: 5f2fac99-ece1-5fdc-b448-4af2fad44e19

STIX ID: report--5f2fac99-ece1-5fdc-b448-4af2fad44e19

Feed Name: cybersecurityNews.com

Threat Score
80/100

Date Published: 2025-12-22

Date Updated: 2026-04-21

Author: Tushar Subhra Dutta

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BlindEagle staged a sophisticated phishing campaign against a Colombian government agency using a malicious SVG to redirect victims to a fake judicial portal; interacting with the portal triggered a multi-stage, fileless chain (JavaScript and PowerShell) that used steganography and in-memory execution to deploy the Caminho downloader and DCRAT RAT (which patches AMSI), achieving persistence via scheduled tasks and registry changes and evading traditional detection.

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