At this time, the forums of choice are WhatsApp and Telegram. The Brazilian forum platform of choice was - and still is - dynamic, changing based on broader social trends and law enforcement efforts. The Chinese underground is more similar to Brazil’s than Russia’s in that way, but Chinese cybercriminals rely on local apps such as QQ and Wechat. The abilities of high-level hackers are illustrated through Brazilian law enforcement efforts like Operation Ostentation and the ATM malware by Prilex gang.īrazilian forums are not necessarily based on web forums. When companies react to their activity by increasing security controls, they move to another business. Brazilian hackers are always in search for the next opportunity for easy money. Hackers in Brazil range from the entry-level hackers and security researchers who disclose vulnerabilities in private conferences to black hat hackers who sell illicit products and services. The primary target of Brazilian hackers is Brazilians.
Recorded Future’s Portuguese-speaking analysts, with a long-standing background in the Brazilian underground, have analyzed underground markets and forums tailored to the Brazilian Portuguese audience over the past decade and discovered a number of particularities in content hosted on forums, as well as differences in forum organization and conduct. Executive SummaryĮach country’s hackers are unique, with their own codes of conduct, forums, motives and payment methods. _ This report, which is part of a series that started with Russia and China, Japan, and Iran, will be of greatest interest to organizations seeking to understand the criminal underground to better monitor financial vertical and company-specific threats, as well as to those investigating the Brazilian criminal underground.
Sources include the Recorded FutureⓇ Platform as well as open web, dark web, and underground forum research._ Recorded Future’s Insikt Group analyzed advertisements, posts, and interactions within hacking and criminal forums to explore the capabilities, culture, and organization of Brazilian hacking communities. Click here to download the complete analysis as a PDF.
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