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 October 2025.
“This threat group employs a wider-ranging attack model focused on a bespoke delivery and propagation mechanism that includes WhatsApp, ClickFix techniques, and email-centric phishing,” BlueVoyant security researchers Thomas Elkins and Joshua Green said in a technical breakdown published Tuesday.
