A new Android trojan is being used to steal passwords from bank accounts in Brazil.
The trojan is being tracked as PixPirate.
- The malware was tracked between the end of 2022 and the beginning of 2023.
- PixPirate enables attackers
to automate the process of its malware deployment by infecting Pix, a
payment platform that is used by most banks in Brazil.
- If the threat actor manages to successfully infect its target with PixPirate, they can:
- Intercept banking credentials,
- perform ATS attacks,
- intercept/delete SMS messages,
- prevent the uninstalling of apps, and
- serve malvertising.
- In 2020, Latin America was targeted with three times as many mobile browser attacks as the global average.