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Casbaneiro Phishing Targets Latin America and Europe Using Dynamic PDF Lures

Wednesday, April 1, 2026 at 12:36 PM UTC·Source: The Hacker News

Updated: Wednesday, April 1, 2026 at 07:13 PM UTC

Executive Summary

A multi-pronged phishing campaign is targeting Spanish-speaking users in organizations across Latin America and Europe to deliver Windows banking trojans like Casbaneiro (aka Metamorfo) via another malware called Horabot. The activity has been attributed to a Brazilian cybercrime threat actor tracked as Augmented Marauder and Water Saci. The e-crime group was first documented by Trend Micro in

Analysis

A multi-pronged phishing campaign is targeting Spanish-speaking users in organizations across Latin America and Europe to deliver Windows banking trojans like Casbaneiro (aka Metamorfo) via another malware called Horabot. The activity has been attributed to a Brazilian cybercrime threat actor tracked as Augmented Marauder and Water Saci. The e-crime group was first documented by Trend Micro in
Source Attribution

Originally published by The Hacker News on Apr 1, 2026.

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