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Cybercriminals have used a new malicious software kit to target banking customers in Brazil, but harbor ambitions far beyond the Latin American country, security researchers said Monday. The data that anti-virus company Kaspersky released shows how an enterprising group of crooks has used Brazil to fine-tune their banking trojan, as the financially-focused malware is called. After successfully infecting numerous victims in Brazil, the campaign has expanded to other Portuguese-speaking countries, from Angola to Mozambique to Portugal. Ghimob, as the newly discovered trojan is known, has a series of features that could make it more effective than previous attempts by Brazilian malware developers to target users abroad, according to the researchers. It is a “full-fledged spy in your pocket” that siphons off data through a number of means, Kaspersky researcher Fabio Assolini and his colleagues wrote in a blog post. It’s a fraudulent app, hosted outside of the Google Play Store, that once installed […]

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