Threats Affecting Portugal

An active Lampion malware campaign has been identified targeting Portuguese users through phishing emails that impersonate financial and administrative communications. Lampion, a Brazilian banking malware derived from the ChePro lineage, delivers initial payloads via ZIP archives containing heavily obfuscated HTML files designed to evade detection. The HTML stage retrieves additional scripts from attacker-controlled infrastructure, initiating a multistage VBS infection chain. Each stage employs extensive obfuscation techniques including junk code, encrypted strings, and dynamically generated scripts that inflate file sizes while concealing core functionality. The infection chain is deliberately fragmented across multiple independent execution stages, complicating behavioral analysis. Telemetry shows 94.6% of detections concentrated in Portugal, confirming this is a highly targeted threat focused on Portuguese-speaking victims.

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Kratos is a mature Phishing-as-a-Service operation targeting Microsoft 365 users across the United States, Europe, and other regions. The platform enables attackers to steal credentials through trusted platforms, anti-bot verification, and convincing login pages. Researchers traced three generations of the kit and uncovered 1,484 previously unattributed detonations. The operation targets organizations across more than 20 countries with particularly strong concentration in the US, Spain, and Southern Europe. Kratos includes an operator panel allowing deployment of phishing domains, configurable Telegram or email delivery, geographic restrictions, and multiple anti-bot systems. The kit has evolved through three page generations (V0, V1, V2) with different exfiltration code. Activity has been visible since January 2026, with the operator panel active since September 2025.

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