More than 40 banks in Mexico and Brazil have been subjected to a new malware campaign involving a new variant of the BBTok banking trojan meant to exfiltrate data for hijacking online bank accounts, according to The Hacker News. Attackers have leveraged fraudulent links and ZIP attachments to facilitate the deployment of the new BBTok variant while bypassing security systems through living-off-the-land binaries and geofencing monitoring, a Check Point report revealed.

Source: SC Magazine