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Tue, November 11, 2025

Maverick Banking Malware Spreads via WhatsApp Web in Brazil

⚠️ Threat hunters report a .NET banking trojan dubbed Maverick propagating via WhatsApp Web, with analyses noting significant code overlaps with the Coyote family and attribution to the actor known as Water Saci. The campaign uses a self-propagating component named SORVEPOTEL to distribute a ZIP containing an LNK that launches PowerShell/cmd to fetch loaders from zapgrande[.]com. The loader installs modules only after geo/linguistic checks confirm the victim is in Brazil and then deploys banking-targeted credential-stealing and web-injection capabilities.

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