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Threat Brief: Embrace Mobile Banking with Caution

The Brazilian Central Bank recently announced that 2017 was the first year in which people did more banking using mobile devices than on PCs. There were 24.5 billion mobile banking transactions while there were 20.6 billion PC-based transactions.

Not all countries are embracing mobile banking as quickly as Brazil. But, mobile banking use is picking up around the globe....

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Oct 23, 2018

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Malspam Targeting Brazil Continues to Evolve

Figure 1: Banload samples we've seen during the first six months of 2017.Figure 1: Banload samples we've seen during the first six months of 2017.

Jul 21, 2017

By Brad Duncan

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2016 Updates to Shifu Banking Trojan

Shifu is a Banking Trojan first discovered in 2015. Shifu is based on the Shiz source code which incorporated techniques used by Zeus. Attackers use Shifu to steal credentials for online banking websites around the world, starting in Russia but later including the UK, I...

Jan 06, 2017

By Dominik Reichel

Financial Services, Malware, Threat Prevention, Unit 42

New Android Trojan “Xbot” Phishes Credit Cards and Bank Accounts, Encrypts ...

We recently discovered 22 Android apps that belong to a new Trojan family we’re calling “Xbot”. This Trojan, which is still under development and regu...

Feb 18, 2016

By Cong Zheng, Claud Xiao and Zhi Xu

Financial Services, Malware, Unit 42

Dridex is Back and Targeting the UK

After Brian Krebs reported the September arrests of alleged key figures in the cyber crime gang that developed and operated Dridex, Unit 42 observed a marked decrease in activity related to this banking Trojan – at least until today. Dride...

Oct 01, 2015

By Brandon Levene and Rob Downs

Malware, Threat Prevention, Unit 42

Banking Trojan Escelar Infects Thousands In Brazil and the US

Unit 42 for the past three months has been tracking a banking Trojan targeting victims in Brazil and the United States. Escelar originally surfaced in...

Aug 27, 2015

By Josh Grunzweig

Financial Services, Malware, Threat Prevention, Unit 42

Retefe Banking Trojan Targets Sweden, Switzerland and Japan

Retefe is one of the most targeted banking Trojans currently in the wild. While other families such as Zeus and Citadel are widely adopted by attacker...

Aug 20, 2015

By Brandon Levene, Robert Falcone, Josh Grunzweig, Bryan Lee and Ryan Olson

Cybersecurity, Malware, Threat Prevention, Unit 42

Dridex Banking Trojan Distributed Through Word Documents

Dridex, the latest descendent of the Bugat/Feodo/Cridex banking Trojan lineage has been a constant source of attacks using the malware since its release in July. To date, Dridex has centered on sending executab...

Oct 24, 2014

By Ryan Olson

Financial Services, Malware, Unit 42, Vertical

Malware Trending: STUN Awareness

Session Traversal Utilities for NAT (STUN) is a network protocol with standardized methods that enables an internal network address space host employing Network Address Translation (NAT) to determine its Internet-facing/public IP address.

Sep 30, 2014

By Rob Downs and Ryan Olson

Cybersecurity, Financial Services, Malware, Threat Prevention, Vertical

Boleto Brazilian Banking Malware: WildFire Nails It!

A new family of malware has recently invaded the Boletos, the second most popular form of payment in Brazil after credit cards. Boletos essentially allow consumers to make electron...

Jul 09, 2014

By Palo Alto Networks

Cybersecurity, Financial Services, Malware, Vertical

Banking Security: Best Practices for Zeus and Cryptolocker

Over the last few weeks we had a new episode in the on-going saga between the banking system and the Zeus and Cryptolocker families of malware. The UK...

Jul 07, 2014

By Palo Alto Networks

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