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Description
CostaRicto is a suspected hacker-for-hire cyber espionage campaign that has targeted multiple industries worldwide since at least 2019. CostaRicto's targets, a large portion of which are financial institutions, are scattered across Europe, the Americas, Asia, Australia, and Africa, with a large concentration in South Asia.(Citation: BlackBerry CostaRicto November 2020)
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Last Updated
Unknown
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ActiveCreated
April 29, 2026
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{'aliases': ['CostaRicto'],
'created': '2021-05-24T13:37:20.240Z',
'created_by_ref': 'identity--c78cb6e5-0c4b-4611-8297-d1b8b55e40b5',
'description': '[CostaRicto](https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G0132) is a '
'suspected hacker-for-hire cyber espionage campaign that has '
'targeted multiple industries worldwide since at least 2019. '
"[CostaRicto](https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G0132)'s "
'targets, a large portion of which are financial institutions, '
'are scattered across Europe, the Americas, Asia, Australia, '
'and Africa, with a large concentration in South '
'Asia.(Citation: BlackBerry CostaRicto November 2020)',
'external_references': [{'external_id': 'G0132',
'source_name': 'mitre-attack',
'url': 'https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G0132'},
{'description': 'The BlackBerry Research and '
'Intelligence Team. (2020, November '
'12). The CostaRicto Campaign: '
'Cyber-Espionage Outsourced. '
'Retrieved May 24, 2021.',
'source_name': 'BlackBerry CostaRicto November 2020',
'url': 'https://blogs.blackberry.com/en/2020/11/the-costaricto-campaign-cyber-espionage-outsourced'}],
'id': 'intrusion-set--bb82e0b0-6e9c-439f-970a-4c917a74c5f2',
'modified': '2025-04-18T17:59:27.430Z',
'name': 'CostaRicto',
'object_marking_refs': ['marking-definition--fa42a846-8d90-4e51-bc29-71d5b4802168'],
'revoked': False,
'spec_version': '2.1',
'type': 'intrusion-set',
'x_mitre_attack_spec_version': '3.2.0',
'x_mitre_deprecated': True,
'x_mitre_domains': ['enterprise-attack'],
'x_mitre_modified_by_ref': 'identity--c78cb6e5-0c4b-4611-8297-d1b8b55e40b5',
'x_mitre_version': '1.0'}