[Stanley]

Rust-Based VENON Malware Targets 33 Brazilian Banks with Credential-Stealing Overlays

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new banking malware targeting Brazilian users that's written in Rust, marking a significant departure from other known Delphi-based malware families associated with the Latin American cybercrime ecosystem.
The malware, which is designed to infect Windows systems and was first discovered last month, has been codenamed VENON by Brazilian

https://thehackernews.com/2026/03/rust-b...ts-33.html

[shakur123]

Cybercriminals moving to Rust just to make life harder for defenders—because why make malware easy to catch when you can make banks and users suffer more?

[Andy Walker]

That's expected. Using Rust, most security measures have not been updated to prevent newer methods.