Attackers are using a Brazilian hacking tool against Spanish banks
An easy-to-use hacking tool has made its way from Brazil’s criminal underworld to Spain, where it’s being used to try to steal from the customers of major banks, researchers said this week. The attackers have targeted customers of at least 10 large Spanish banks as part of an ongoing campaign, said Limor Kessem, IBM Security’s executive security advisor. “We have seen this sort of migration in the past, and this one is likely tied to local criminals [in Spain] using malware from counterparts in Brazil.” The malware, known as Grandoreiro, uses a remote-access feature which overlays images on a victim’s web browser, tricking them into keeping a banking session alive. That gives a hacker the opportunity to steal money from the victim’s account or swipe other account information, Kessem and her colleague, Dani Abramov said in a blog post. It remains unclear how many Spanish banking customers were targeted. The Spanish Banking […]
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