Over 300,000 Android Users Have Downloaded These Banking Trojan Malware Apps, Say Security Researchers

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BeauHD posted on Tuesday November 30, 2021, at 09:10PM from the be-careful dept.

Over 300,000 people have downloaded the banking trojans after falling victim to the software that bypassed detection by the app store. The four different forms of malware are delivered to victims via malicious versions of commonly downloaded applications. The functions that are advertised are what the apps come with. In each case, the malicious intent of the app is hidden and the process of delivering the malware only begins once the app has been installed.

Anatsa, which has been installed by over 200,000 users, is an advanced banking program that can steal usernames and passwords, and uses accessibility logging to capture everything shown on the user's screen, according to researchers. The Play Store has 95,000 installations of the malware. Brunhilda is a cyber-criminal group known to target devices with banking software. The device needed to steal banking information is provided by both Ermac and Hydra. All of the malicious apps that ThreatFabric reported to Google have either been removed or are under review.

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