PixPirate Android Banking Trojan Using New Evasion Tactic to Target Brazilian Users

The threat actors behind the PixPirate Android banking trojan are leveraging a new trick to evade detection on compromised devices and harvest sensitive information from users in Brazil.
The approach allows it to hide the malicious app’s icon from the home screen of the victim’s device, IBM said in a technical report published today.
“Thanks to this new technique, during PixPirate reconnaissance