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fromThe Hacker News
6 days ago

Rust-Based VENON Malware Targets 33 Brazilian Banks with Credential-Stealing Overlays

VENON, a new Rust-based banking malware targeting Brazilian users, employs sophisticated evasion techniques and shares behavioral patterns with established Latin American banking trojans despite being attributed to no known group.
fromThe Hacker News
4 months ago

WhatsApp Malware 'Maverick' Hijacks Browser Sessions to Target Brazil's Biggest Banks

The campaign involves two components: A self-propagating malware referred to as SORVEPOTEL that's spread via the desktop web version of WhatsApp and is used to deliver a ZIP archive containing the Maverick payload. The malware is designed to monitor active browser window tabs for URLs that match a hard-coded list of financial institutions in Latin America. Should the URLs match, it establishes contact with a remote server to fetch follow-on commands to gather system information and serve phishing pages to steal credentials.
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