Police Disrupt a €140M Cyber Fraud Ring in Spain
Iberian hackers carried out a variety of cyberattacks and laundered the winnings through complex financial networks.
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Iberian hackers carried out a variety of cyberattacks and laundered the winnings through complex financial networks.
A Brazilian banking trojan called Ousaban is going after Windows users who bank in Spain and Portugal. Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs identified the campaign in May 2026
Augmented Marauder's multipronged banking-Trojan cyber campaigns are targeting Spanish speakers, evading detection, and replicating rapidly.
A sophisticated new banking malware is hard to detect, capable of stealing lots of money, and infecting thousands of people in Italy and Spain.
Law enforcement authorities in Europe have arrested five suspects in connection with an "elaborate" online investment fraud scheme that stole more than €100 million ($118 million) from over 100 victims in France, Germany, Italy, and Spain
Microsoft has revealed that a now-patched security flaw impacting the Windows Common Log File System (CLFS) was exploited as a zero-day in ransomware attacks aimed at a small number of targets
The Spanish police, working with colleagues in Peru, conducted a simultaneous crackdown on a large-scale voice phishing (vishing) scam ring in the two countries, arresting 83 individuals. [...]
Chinese-speaking adversaries are using a fresh Android banking Trojan to take over devices and initiate fraudulent money transfers from financial institutions across Latin America, Italy, Portugal, and Spain.
Financial institutions in Latin America are being threatened by a banking trojan called Mekotio (aka Melcoz)
ShinyHunters Advertises Data Set of '30 Million Customers' for $2 MillionA hacker is selling the purported data of 30 million customers of Spanish multinational bank Santander for $2 million on a criminal online forum the FBI recently attempted to shut down. Sample data posted online suggests the data set is genuine.
The company reports that customers based in Chile, Spain, and Uruguay were the primary victims of the breach, alongside some former employees of the global bank.
Mitek surveyed 1500 financial services risk and innovation professionals in UK, US and Spain
The banking trojan known as Mispadu has expanded its focus beyond Latin America (LATAM) and Spanish-speaking individuals to target users in Italy, Poland, and Sweden
The threat actor known as TA558 has been attributed to a new massive phishing campaign that targets a wide range of sectors in Latin America with the goal of deploying Venom RAT
The Federal Police of Brazil and cybersecurity researchers have disrupted the Grandoreiro banking malware operation, which has been targeting Spanish-speaking countries with financial fraud since 2017. [...]
Neo_Net’s campaign mainly targeted Spanish and Chilean financial institutions
An e-crime actor of Mexican provenance has been linked to an Android mobile malware campaign targeting financial institutions globally, but with a specific focus on Spanish and Chilean banks, from June 2021 to April 2023
The firm said the attack occurred last Thursday and prompted it to activate its security protocols
An unknown cybercrime threat actor has been observed targeting Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking victims to compromise online banking accounts in Mexico, Peru, and Portugal
The National Police of Spain said it arrested 40 individuals for their alleged involvement in an organized crime gang called Trinitarians