The main Slovak antivirus software provider ESET has discovered a banking trojan that can steal cryptographic currencies and is particularly widespread in Latin America.
Known as "Casbaneiro" or "Metamorfo", the newly formed malware family is targeted at banks and cryptographic currency services located in Brazil and Mexico, the editorial arm of ESET WeLiveSecurity reports on October 3.
According to the report, Casbaneiro uses a method of social engineering that displays false pop-ups that mislead potential victims when misrepresenting confidential information. The capabilities of malware are typical of Latin American banking trojans, which can take screenshots and send them to a command and control server, simulate keyboard actions and keystrokes, restrict access to websites and download and perform other tools, the report notes.
Alongside banks, one of Casbaneiro's main objectives is currency wallets. According to ESET, Casbaneiro is able to monitor clipboard content and replace the cryptographic wallets that victims copied to addresses belonging to the attacker.
In addition, newly discovered malware uses a number of cryptographic algorithms, each of which is designed to protect different types of data, says the report.
