{"id":236749,"date":"2026-05-08T02:10:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T07:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/new-tclbanker-malware-self-spreads-over-whatsapp-and-outlook"},"modified":"2026-05-08T02:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T07:10:13","slug":"new-tclbanker-malware-self-spreads-over-whatsapp-and-outlook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/new-tclbanker-malware-self-spreads-over-whatsapp-and-outlook","title":{"rendered":"New TCLBanker malware self-spreads over WhatsApp and Outlook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-tclbanker-malware-self-spreads-over-whatsapp-and-outlook.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new trojan named TCLBanker, which targets 59 banking, fintech, and cryptocurrency platforms, uses a trojanized MSI installer for Logitech AI Prompt Builder to infect systems.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the malware includes self-spreading worm modules for WhatsApp and Outlook that automatically infect new victims.<\/p>\n<p>The new banking trojan was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elastic.co\/security-labs\/tclbanker-brazilian-banking-trojan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">discovered by Elastic Security Labs<\/a>, whose researchers believe it\u2019s a major evolution of the older Maverick\/Sorvepotel malware family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new trojan named TCLBanker, which targets 59 banking, fintech, and cryptocurrency platforms, uses a trojanized MSI installer for Logitech AI Prompt Builder to infect systems. Additionally, the malware includes self-spreading worm modules for WhatsApp and Outlook that automatically infect new victims. The new banking trojan was discovered by Elastic Security Labs, whose researchers believe [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1761,34,45,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cryptocurrencies","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-finance","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236749","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=236749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}