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Android banking trojans: How they steal passwords and drain bank accounts

Malwarebytes

For the most popular operating system in the world—which is Android and it isn’t even a contest —there’s a sneaky cyberthreat that can empty out a person’s bank accounts to fill the illicit coffers of cybercriminals. What are Android banking trojans? Take the SharkBot banking trojan, which Malwarebytes detects and stops.

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Bizarro Banking Trojan

Schneier on Security

Bizarro is a new banking trojan that is stealing financial information and crypto wallets. In some instances, the malware can allow criminals to commandeer a victim’s crypto wallet, too.

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PIN-Stealing Android Malware

Schneier on Security

The malware captures any PINs and passwords the victim enters to unlock their device and can later use them to unlock the device at will to perform malicious activities hidden from view.

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Chinese Hackers Using Deepfakes in Advanced Mobile Banking Malware Attacks

The Hacker News

A Chinese-speaking threat actor codenamed GoldFactory has been attributed to the development of highly sophisticated banking trojans, including a previously undocumented iOS malware called GoldPickaxe that's capable of harvesting identity documents, facial recognition data, and intercepting SMS.

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Police disrupt Grandoreiro banking malware operation, make arrests

Bleeping Computer

The Federal Police of Brazil and cybersecurity researchers have disrupted the Grandoreiro banking malware operation, which has been targeting Spanish-speaking countries with financial fraud since 2017. [.]

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Vultur banking malware for Android poses as McAfee Security app

Bleeping Computer

Security researchers found a new version of the Vultur banking trojan for Android that includes more advanced remote control capabilities and an improved evasion mechanism. [.]

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Fake Shops, Real Theft: Android Malware Targets Banks

Penetration Testing

Initially focused on Malaysia, researchers at Cyble Research and Intelligence Lab (CRIL) reveal that this operation now... The post Fake Shops, Real Theft: Android Malware Targets Banks appeared first on Penetration Testing.

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