{"id":8918,"date":"2025-12-04T07:04:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T07:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/04\/brazil-hit-by-banking-trojan-spread-via-html\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T07:04:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T07:04:23","slug":"brazil-hit-by-banking-trojan-spread-via-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/04\/brazil-hit-by-banking-trojan-spread-via-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil Hit by Banking Trojan Spread via WhatsApp Worm and RelayNFC NFC Relay Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Brazil Hit by Banking Trojan Spread via WhatsApp Worm and RelayNFC NFC Relay Fraud<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>The threat actor known as Water Saci is actively evolving its tactics, switching to a sophisticated, highly layered infection chain that uses HTML Application (HTA) files and PDFs to propagate via WhatsApp a worm that deploys a banking trojan in attacks targeting users in Brazil.<br \/>\nThe latest wave is characterized by the attackers shifting from PowerShell to a Python-based variant that spreads the<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2025\/12\/brazil-hit-by-banking-trojan-spread-via.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazil Hit by Banking Trojan Spread via WhatsApp Worm and RelayNFC NFC Relay Fraud The threat actor known as Water Saci is actively evolving its tactics, switching to a sophisticated, highly layered infection chain that uses HTML Application (HTA) files and PDFs to propagate via WhatsApp a worm that deploys a banking trojan in attacks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-8918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thehackersnews","tag-thehackersnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}