New Android banking trojan (virus) in Google playstore
- El>Qufl
- Jul 18, 2022
- 1 min read
A new Android banking trojan with over 50,000 installations has been observed distributed via the official Google Play Store with the goal of targeting banks accrosa Africa and Europe and carrying out harvesting sensitive information from compromised devices. Dubbed Xenomorph by Dutch security firm ThreatFabric, the in-development malware is said to share overlaps with another banking trojan tracked under the moniker Alien while also being "radically different" from its predecessor in terms of the functionalities offered. These Trojans manifest themselves as phone cleaning apps that tend to boost your device performance. If you have any of these apps uninstall them quickly
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