SharkBot, like its counterparts TeaBot, FluBot, and Oscorp (UBEL), belongs to the category of banking Trojans capable of stealing credentials from hacked devices and bypassing multi-factor authentication mechanisms. Malware first appeared on the scene in November 2021.

A distinctive feature of SharkBot is its ability to perform unauthorized transactions through automatic transfer systems (ATS), that distinguishes it from, for example, TeaBot, which requires a live operator to [...]

Under the guise of a security scanner that looks for traces of Pegasus in the system, hackers are distributing RAT Sarwent.

Let me remind you that in June 2021, the human rights organization Amnesty International, the non-profit project Forbidden Stories, as well as more than 80 journalists from a consortium of 17 media organizations in ten countries of the world published the results of a joint investigation, which was named the Pegasus project. Then the experts said that they had discovered large-scale abuse of the Pegasus spyware, created by the Israeli [...]