Category Archives: Fraud Protection

What’s up India? PixPirate is back and spreading via WhatsApp

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Quick recap This blog post is the continuation of a previous blog regarding PixPirate malware. If you haven’t read the initial post, please take a couple of minutes to get caught up before diving into this additional content. As a reminder, PixPirate malware consists of two components: a downloader application and a droppee application, and […]

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New Fakext malware targets Latin American banks

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Browser extensions have become integral to our online experience. From productivity tools to entertainment add-ons, these small software modules offer customized features to suit individual preferences. Unfortunately, extensions can prove useful to malicious actors as well. Capitalizing on the favorable characteristics of an add-on, an attacker can leverage attributes like persistence, seamless installation, elevated privileges […]

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From federation to fabric: IAM’s evolution

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In the modern day, we’ve come to expect that our various applications can share our identity information with one another. Most of our core systems federate seamlessly and bi-directionally. This means that you can quite easily register and log in to a given service with the user account from another service or even invert that […]

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From federation to fabric: IAM’s evolution

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In the modern day, we’ve come to expect that our various applications can share our identity information with one another. Most of our core systems federate seamlessly and bi-directionally. This means that you can quite easily register and log in to a given service with the user account from another service or even invert that […]

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PixPirate: The Brazilian financial malware you can’t see

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Malicious software always aims to stay hidden, making itself invisible so the victims can’t detect it. The constantly mutating PixPirate malware has taken that strategy to a new extreme. PixPirate is a sophisticated financial remote access trojan (RAT) malware that heavily utilizes anti-research techniques. This malware’s infection vector is based on two malicious apps: a […]

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Web injections are back on the rise: 40+ banks affected by new malware campaign

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Web injections, a favored technique employed by various banking trojans, have been a persistent threat in the realm of cyberattacks. These malicious injections enable cyber criminals to manipulate data exchanges between users and web browsers, potentially compromising sensitive information. In March 2023, security researchers at IBM Security Trusteer uncovered a new malware campaign using JavaScript […]

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Virtual credit card fraud: An old scam reinvented

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In today’s rapidly evolving financial landscape, as banks continue to broaden their range of services and embrace innovative technologies, they find themselves at the forefront of a dual-edged sword. While these advancements promise greater convenience and accessibility for customers, they also inadvertently expose the financial industry to an ever-shifting spectrum of emerging fraud trends. This […]

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Remote access detection in 2023: Unmasking invisible fraud

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In the ever-evolving fraud landscape, fraudsters have shifted their tactics from using third-party devices to on-device fraud. Now, users face the rising threat of fraud involving remote access tools (RATs), while banks and fraud detection vendors struggle with new challenges in detecting this invisible threat. Let’s examine the modus operandi of fraudsters, prevalence rates across […]

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