{"id":9750,"date":"2026-01-09T07:03:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T07:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/09\/whatsapp-worm-spreads-astaroth-banking-html\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T07:03:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T07:03:27","slug":"whatsapp-worm-spreads-astaroth-banking-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/09\/whatsapp-worm-spreads-astaroth-banking-html\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp Worm Spreads Astaroth Banking Trojan Across Brazil via Contact Auto-Messaging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    WhatsApp Worm Spreads Astaroth Banking Trojan Across Brazil via Contact Auto-Messaging<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new campaign that uses WhatsApp as a distribution vector for a Windows banking trojan called Astaroth in attacks targeting Brazil.<br \/>\nThe campaign has been codenamed Boto Cor-de-Rosa by Acronis Threat Research Unit.<br \/>\n&#8220;The malware retrieves the victim&#8217;s WhatsApp contact list and automatically sends malicious messages to each contact to further<\/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\/2026\/01\/whatsapp-worm-spreads-astaroth-banking.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp Worm Spreads Astaroth Banking Trojan Across Brazil via Contact Auto-Messaging Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new campaign that uses WhatsApp as a distribution vector for a Windows banking trojan called Astaroth in attacks targeting Brazil. The campaign has been codenamed Boto Cor-de-Rosa by Acronis Threat Research Unit. &#8220;The malware retrieves the victim&#8217;s [&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-9750","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\/9750"}],"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=9750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}