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A new banking trojan has been discovered targeting Android users, with the capabilities to spy on 153 mobile apps from various banks, cryptocurrencies and exchanges. Kaspersky telemetry shows that all victims of the Ghimob mobile banking trojan are currently located in Brazil at the moment.
Four months after security researchers uncovered a "Tetrade" of four Brazilian banking Trojans targeting financial institutions in Brazil, Latin America, and Europe, new findings show that the criminals behind the operation have expanded their tactics to infect mobile devices with spyware. According to Kaspersky's Global Research and Analysis Team, the Brazil-based threat group Guildma has deployed "Ghimob," an Android banking Trojan targeting financial apps from banks, fintech companies, exchanges, and cryptocurrencies in Brazil, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Germany, Angola, and Mozambique.
The smishing campaign is concerning as it employs multiple HMRC phishing domains and tactics, with new domains added every day as older ones get flagged by spam filters. Not only do the phishing pages mimic HMRC's web interface meticulously, but they also have entire online banking workflows built into them, depending on who your banking provider is.
Brovko was tasked with sifting through the logs of these botnets for internet banking credentials vacuumed by the malware, which were subsequently used by fellow conspirators to steal millions of dollars from Americans' accounts in fraudulent transfers. "Where his computer code could not effectively parse the data, Brovko supplemented his computer-automated efforts with manual searches of the data," his indictment [PDF] noted.
The Wroba mobile banking trojan has made a major pivot, targeting people in the U.S. for the first time. Where Android users are served up the full Wroba download, according to researchers, the executable doesn't work on iPhone.
The group had three hierarchical levels: leaders, mid-level managers, and money mules. The funds were transferred through a complex series of transactions that included transfers to other bank accounts controlled by the money-laundering group and conversion to cryptocurrency.
Virus Bulletin 2020 - A loose affiliation of cybercriminals are working together to author and distribute multiple families of banking trojans in Latin America - a collaborative effort that researchers say is highly unusual. Multiple, distinct malware families have plagued Latin American banking customers for years - the variants include Amavaldo, Casbaneiro, Grandoreiro, Guildma, Krachulka, Lokorrito, Mekotio, Mispadu, Numando, Vadokrist and Zumanek, according to ESET. In examining these families over time, ESET researchers began to notice "Some similarities between multiple families in our series, such as using the same uncommon algorithm to encrypt strings or suspiciously similar DGAs to obtain C2 server addresses," according to a Thursday analysis.
A newly uncovered banking trojan called Alien is invading Android devices worldwide, using an advanced ability to bypass two-factor authentication security measures to steal victim credentials. Researchers believe Alien is a "Fork" of the infamous Cerberus banking malware, which has undergone a steady demise in use over the past year.
The usage of banking services through a mobile app has quickly been embraced by consumers. Currently, researches indicate that mobile banking apps are often not as secure as expected.
A notorious banking trojan aimed at stealing bank account credentials and other financial information has now come back with new tricks up its sleeve to target government, military, and manufacturing sectors in the US and Europe, according to new research. In an analysis released by Check Point Research today, the latest wave of Qbot activity appears to have dovetailed with the return of Emotet - another email-based malware behind several botnet-driven spam campaigns and ransomware attacks - last month, with the new sample capable of covertly gathering all email threads from a victim's Outlook client and using them for later malspam campaigns.