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Ousaban Banking Trojan Targets Iberian Bank Users with Fake PDF Lures

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. It opens with a phishing PDF disguised as a corrupted file, checks that the visitor is really in Spain or Portugal, and hides its real payload inside an image. The goal is the usual one: steal banking logins and take over accounts. Ousaban sits quietly on a Windows PC and waits for the user to open a banking site. When a target bank loads, it can capture screenshots and keystrokes, tamper with the clipboard, show fake messages, and give the attacker remote control. Together, those are the tools for hijacking a live banking session and taking over an account. Ousaban watches for more than two dozen banks across the two…

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