A new Android banking trojan has targeted Brazilian financial institutions with the intention of defrauding them using the PIX payments system.
The malware is being tracked as PixPirate by the Italian cybersecurity firm Cleafy, which found it between the end of 2022 and the beginning of 2023.
According to researchers Francesco Iubatti and Alessandro Strino, “PixPirate belongs to the newest generation of Android banking trojans, as it can perform ATS (Automatic Transfer System), enabling attackers to automate the insertion of a malicious money transfer over the Instant Payment platform Pix, adopted by multiple Brazilian banks read the complete article Pixpirate: New Android Banking Trojan Targeting Brazilian Financial Institutions.