The “leakiest” countries in 2023 were India, the United States, Brazil, China, and others. The IT sector was the most affected, accounting for 65.9% of leaked secrets, followed by education at 20.1%, and other sectors making up the remaining 14%.
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 file and subsequently utilizing DLL side-loading techniques to execute the final malware,” Fortinet FortiGuard Labs researcher Cara Lin said. The attack chain involves the […]
Feb 09, 2024NewsroomEndpoint Security / Cryptocurrency 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, leveraging Node.js and a relatively new multi-platform programming language called Nim as a loader to complete its infection,” Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky […]
Entire population of Brazil possibly exposed in massive data leak Pierluigi Paganini January 10, 2024 The private data of hundreds of millions of Brazilian individuals were publicly accessible to threat actors, putting individuals at risk. Cybernews research revealed a publicly accessible Elasticsearch instance, which contained a staggering amount of private data belonging to Brazilian individuals. […]