Friday, 14 August 2020

Mekotio banking trojan fakes security update, steals bitcoins, exfiltrates Google credentials

ESET researchers explored Mekotio, a banking trojan targeting Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries: mainly Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Spain, Peru and Portugal. Mekotio boasts several typical backdoor activities, including taking screenshots, restarting affected machines, restricting access to legitimate banking websites, and, in some variants, even stealing bitcoins and exfiltrating credentials stored by the Google Chrome browser.



from Cyber Security News https://ift.tt/3kM60eg

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