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Rocinante is a piece of malware classified as a Trojan. This malware targets Android devices. Rocinante has been observed targeting most of the banking institutions in Brazil. Cybercriminals behind the malware use phishing websites to deliver it. Victims of Rocinante can suffer monetary losses and
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MoneyIsTime is ransomware designed to encrypt files on the infected computer. Our discovery of MoneyIsTime occured during inspection of malware samples submitted to VirusTotal. In addition to encrypting files, MoneyIsTime renames them (by appending a string of random characters and the ".moneyisti
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