{"id":225480,"date":"2025-11-20T01:25:47","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T07:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/python-based-whatsapp-worm-spreads-eternidade-stealer-across-brazilian-devices"},"modified":"2025-11-20T01:25:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T07:25:47","slug":"python-based-whatsapp-worm-spreads-eternidade-stealer-across-brazilian-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/python-based-whatsapp-worm-spreads-eternidade-stealer-across-brazilian-devices","title":{"rendered":"Python-Based WhatsApp Worm Spreads Eternidade Stealer Across Brazilian Devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/python-based-whatsapp-worm-spreads-eternidade-stealer-across-brazilian-devices2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new campaign that leverages a combination of social engineering and WhatsApp hijacking to distribute a Delphi-based banking trojan named <strong>Eternidade Stealer<\/strong> as part of attacks targeting users in Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt uses Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) to dynamically retrieve command-and-control (C2) addresses, allowing the threat actor to update its C2 server,\u201d Trustwave SpiderLabs researchers Nathaniel Morales, John Basmayor, and Nikita Kazymirskyi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trustwave.com\/en-us\/resources\/blogs\/spiderlabs-blog\/spiderlabs-ids-new-banking-trojan-distributed-through-whatsapp\/\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> in a technical breakdown of the campaign shared with The Hacker News.<\/p>\n<p>It is distributed through a WhatsApp worm campaign, with the actor now deploying a Python script, a shift from previous PowerShell-based scripts to hijack WhatsApp and spread malicious attachments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new campaign that leverages a combination of social engineering and WhatsApp hijacking to distribute a Delphi-based banking trojan named Eternidade Stealer as part of attacks targeting users in Brazil. \u201cIt uses Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) to dynamically retrieve command-and-control (C2) addresses, allowing the threat actor to update [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,45,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-finance","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}