Security News

Global Pressure Mounts for Apple as Brazilian Court Demands iOS Sideloading Within 90 Days
2025-03-11 06:55

Apple argues sideloading threatens security, while users demand more choice. With global market pressure rising, will iOS open up to third-party apps?

Brazilian Hacker Charged for Extorting $3.2M in Bitcoin After Breaching 300,000 Accounts
2024-12-26 14:42

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...

Brazilian police claim they've cuffed serial cybercrook behind FBI and Airbus attacks
2024-10-17 14:00

Early stage opsec failures lead to landmark arrest of suspected serial data thief Brazilian police are being cagey with the details about the arrest of a person suspected to be responsible for...

New Brazilian-Linked SambaSpy Malware Targets Italian Users via Phishing Emails
2024-09-19 14:10

A previously undocumented malware called SambaSpy is exclusively targeting users in Italy via a phishing campaign orchestrated by a suspected Brazilian Portuguese-speaking threat actor. "Threat...

Rocinante Trojan Poses as Banking Apps to Steal Sensitive Data from Brazilian Android Users
2024-09-03 09:37

Mobile users in Brazil are the target of a new malware campaign that delivers a new Android banking trojan named Rocinante. "This malware family is capable of performing keylogging using the...

North Korean Hackers Target Brazilian Fintech with Sophisticated Phishing Tactics
2024-06-14 06:45

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...

Brazilian Banks Targeted by New AllaKore RAT Variant Called AllaSenha
2024-05-29 14:58

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...

PixPirate Android Banking Trojan Using New Evasion Tactic to Target Brazilian Users
2024-03-13 13:55

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...

New Banking Trojan CHAVECLOAK Targets Brazilian Users via Phishing Tactics
2024-03-11 14:47

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...

New Coyote Trojan Targets 61 Brazilian Banks with Nim-Powered Attack
2024-02-09 10:28

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,...