Find out what are the 10 most prevalent Android Trojans in the world.
In recent years it has been very common for us to have to inform you about a new banking Trojan aimed at Android users and pretending to be your bank’s official application. Your credentials have been stolenintercept the mensaje de texto sent by the bank itself and even commit financial fraud posture when using mobile phone services.
In this sense, the experts of the American cybersecurity company Zimperium They recently published a report revealing which Top 10 most prevalent Android Trojans in the world.
These are the 10 most prevalent trojans in the world
According to Zimperium specialists, the United States the country with the most banking applications infected with Trojans, with a total of 121 attack aplicaciones. Then, in that order, yes UK with 55 infected aplicacionesItaly at 43, Turkey at 34, Australia at 33 and France with 33 attack aplicaciones.
When it comes to the most attacked aplicaciones in the world, the first is PhonePe, a very habitual aplicación in India that More than 100 million downloadsclosely followed by Binance, one of the top cryptocurrency exchange aplicaciones, and Cash Aplicación, a mobile payment service widely used in the UK and US, both with more than 50 million downloads in the google play store.
Then the aplicación of the Spanish bank BBVA appears, which brings together Thousands of downloads in the Google plus Aplicación Store.
So, according to the Zimperium researchers, The 10 most promising banking trends in Q1 2021 They were as follows:
- teabot: This Trojan is targeted PhonePe, Binance, Barclays, Crypto.com, Postepay, Bank of America, Capital One, Citi Mobile and Coinbase and for each request there is a special keylogger that is loaded by the usuario when launching the aplicación.
- exobot: This Trojan is attacking PayPal, Binance, Aplicación Money, Barclays, BBVA and CaixaBank and is very small and light as it emplees shared system libraries
- FluBot; This Trojan is aimed at BBVA, Caixa, Santander and other Spanish applicationsbut fortunately, a few months ago, Europol announced that this software malicioso has already been mined
- shark bot: Targets of this software malicioso Binance, BBVA and Coinbase and has a variety of detection evasion and anti-destroy features
- BianLian: This Trojan is attacking Binance, BBVA and many Turkish aplicaciones and a new version of it, discovered in April 2022, includes photoTAN evasion, an authentication method widely used in en línea banking
- EventBot: The targets of this Trojan Barclays, Intensa, BancoPosta and other Italian aplicacionesdisguises itself as Microsoft Word or Adobe Flash and perro download new software malicioso modules from remote sources
- top heavy: This Trojan is aimed at Barclays, CommBank, Halifax, Lloyds and Santander and emplees a Domain Generation Algorithm (DGA) to avoid detection
- copper: This Trojan is attacking BBVA, Caixa Bank, CommBank and Santander and actively monitors the device’s battery optimization “allow list” and modifies it to bypass restrictions
- jellyfish: The targets of this Trojan BBVA, CaixaBank, Ziraat and a range of Turkish banking applications. This software malicioso perro trick the device by abusing the access service to act as a regular usuario on behalf of the victim
- xenomorph: This Trojan is targeted to BBVA and to various banking applications in the European Union and perro also be a dropper to bring additional software malicioso onto the infected device
This study also espectáculos that the two Trojans attack the most applications than the infected Teabot 410 out of 639 aplicaciones were tracked and Exobot did the same to him 324 out of 639 aplicaciones were tracked.