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Malvertising Campaign Targets Brazil's PIX Payment System with GoPIX Malware

By Newsroom — October 25th 2023 at 09:13
The popularity of Brazil's PIX instant payment system has made it a lucrative target for threat actors looking to generate illicit profits using a new malware called GoPIX. Kaspersky, which has been tracking the active campaign since December 2022, said the attacks are pulled off using malicious ads that are served when potential victims search for "WhatsApp web" on search engines. "The
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PixPirate: New Android Banking Trojan Targeting Brazilian Financial Institutions

By Ravie Lakshmanan — February 4th 2023 at 13:39
A new Android banking trojan has set its eyes on Brazilian financial institutions to commit fraud by leveraging the PIX payments platform. Italian cybersecurity company Cleafy, which discovered the malware between the end of 2022 and the beginning of 2023, is tracking it under the name PixPirate. "PixPirate belongs to the newest generation of Android banking trojan, as it can perform ATS (
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Hacker Rewarded $70,000 for Finding Way to Bypass Google Pixel Phones' Lock Screens

By Ravie Lakshmanan — November 10th 2022 at 15:07
Google has resolved a high-severity security issue affecting all Pixel smartphones that could be trivially exploited to unlock the devices. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-20465 and reported by security researcher David Schütz in June 2022, was remediated as part of the search giant's monthly Android update for November 2022. "The issue allowed an attacker with physical access to bypass
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