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Ousaban Trojan Targets Iberian Banks via Fake PDFs

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from The Hacker News ·

A Brazilian banking trojan called Ousaban is targeting Windows users in Spain and Portugal. The campaign, detected in May 2026, uses phishing PDFs disguised as corrupted files and hides its payload in images. Its goal is to steal banking credentials from Iberian bank customers.

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The geographic targeting and image-based payload concealment show increasing sophistication, but the trojan's reliance on Windows and phishing suggests basic security hygiene still blocks most infections.
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