Rust-Based VENON Malware Targets 33 Brazilian Banks with Credential-Stealing Overlays
2026-03-12T19:24:10Z•087beea0f4890942365fd61c57877cd42200d06a83b20e0762cb4c77aa2f0c3c
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What happened
A collection of security reports highlighting active exploitation and high‑risk threats: a new Rust‑based VENON banking trojan targets 33 Brazilian banks; AI‑assisted malware (Slopoly) used by Hive0163 and research showing AI/agentic browsers can be tricked for phishing; critical remote code execution flaws in n8n (including CVE-2025-68613 and newly disclosed CVE-2026-27577/CVE-2026-27493) flagged by CISA; supply‑chain compromises (malicious Rust crates on crates.io and an npm package posing as OpenClaw) that exfiltrate developer secrets and deploy RATs; FortiGate appliances and other vendors’
Why it matters
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- 087beea0f4890942365fd61c57877cd42200d06a83b20e0762cb4c77aa2f0c3c
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- 2026-03-12T19:24:10Z
- AI-assisted enrichment
- Yes
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