Cybersecurity researchers discovered that the Ethernidade Stealer banking trojan is spreading through WhatsApp in Brazil. It is sophisticated malware that only affects desktop systems.

Popular messaging apps are used to infiltrate the financial information of unsuspecting users. If you have saved your bank information in the messaging platform, you'd better delete it from the chats as early as now.

WhatsApp as a Malware Vector

According to Infosecurity Magazine , Brazilian cyber threat actors have turned WhatsApp into a tool to spread the Ethernidade Stealer. Their attack starts with an obfuscated VBScript, which then loads a Python-based WhatsApp worm.

The latter automatically sends messages, steals the contacts list, and publishes files to create a consistent way of spreading

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