Operation Comando
- Primary motivation
- financial-gain
- Sophistication
- minimal
- Resource level
- individual
- Actor type
- criminal
- Profile updated
- 2026-07-07 11:56:41
Targeted industries: retail-and-hospitality
Context
Operation Comando is a pure cybercrime campaign, possibly with Brazilian origin, with a concrete and persistent focus on the hospitality sector, which proves how a threat actor can be successful in pursuing its objectives while maintaining a cheap budget. The use of DDNS services, publicly available remote access tools, and having a minimum knowledge on software development (in this case VB.NET) has been enough for running a campaign lasting month, and potentially gathering credit card information and other possible data.
Reports & references
- Palo Alto Unit 42 — Operation Comando Or How To Run A Cheap And Effective Credit Card Business (report)