Research by: Amit Yardeni Key Points A Chinese-speaking actor is now targeting Brazil. Check Point Research has uncovered a sustained campaign against Brazilian organizations, primarily government and educational institutions since mid-2025. We dubbed this group Gambling Goblin: a Chinese-speaking cybercrime cluster connected to a previously documented group, Earth Berberoka, that targeted gambling sites across Asia. It marks a shift from Brazil’s usual home-grown banking-trojan threats to a foreign operator moving in Compromised web servers turned into stealthy proxies. The attackers compile and install malicious Apache modules on victim servers that silently reverse-proxy visitors to attacker-controlled phishing pages, while the traffic still appears to originate from the…