Brazilian Hacker Charged for Extorting $3.2M in Bitcoin After Breaching 300,000 Accounts A Brazilian citizen has been charged in the United States for allegedly threatening to release data stolen by hacking into a company’s network in March 2020. Junior Barros De Oliveira, 29, of Curitiba, Brazil has been charged with Read more…
North Korean Hackers Target Brazilian Fintech with Sophisticated Phishing Tactics Threat actors linked to North Korea have accounted for one-third of all the phishing activity targeting Brazil since 2020, as the country’s emergence as an influential power has drawn the attention of cyber espionage groups. “North Korean government-backed actors have Read more…
Brazilian Banks Targeted by New AllaKore RAT Variant Called AllaSenha Brazilian banking institutions are the target of a new campaign that distributes a custom variant of the Windows-based AllaKore remote access trojan (RAT) called AllaSenha. The malware is “specifically aimed at stealing credentials that are required to access Brazilian bank Read more…
PixPirate Android Banking Trojan Using New Evasion Tactic to Target Brazilian Users The threat actors behind the PixPirate Android banking trojan are leveraging a new trick to evade detection on compromised devices and harvest sensitive information from users in Brazil. The approach allows it to hide the malicious app’s icon Read more…
New Banking Trojan CHAVECLOAK Targets Brazilian Users via Phishing Tactics Users in Brazil are the target of a new banking trojan known as CHAVECLOAK that’s propagated via phishing emails bearing PDF attachments. “This intricate attack involves the PDF downloading a ZIP file and subsequently utilizing DLL side-loading techniques to execute the final Read more…
New Coyote Trojan Targets 61 Brazilian Banks with Nim-Powered Attack Feb 09, 2024NewsroomEndpoint Security / Cryptocurrency Sixty-one banking institutions, all of them originating from Brazil, are the target of a new banking trojan called Coyote. “This malware utilizes the Squirrel installer for distribution, leveraging Node.js and a relatively new multi-platform Read more…
Brazilian Feds Dismantle Grandoreiro Banking Trojan, Arresting Top Operatives Jan 30, 2024NewsroomCyber Crime / Malware A Brazilian law enforcement operation has led to the arrest of several Brazilian operators in charge of the Grandoreiro malware. The Federal Police of Brazil said it served five temporary arrest warrants and 13 search Read more…