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A cybersecurity company was able to find malicious software in the Android operating system, this program targets banking applications on your particular phone, and also the cryptocurrency wallet, and is a huge risk due to its superior ability to access your passwords, where the company (Cybereason) released the eventbot name in This malicious program, and they have discovered that it is capable, with an amazing ability to deny the image of a legitimate application of deep access to the operating system of the user’s device.
Malware’s ability to disguise itself
Where cybereason discovered that this malicious program has the ability to disguise itself as a legitimate Android application, such as Microsoft’s word or adobe flash, and then abuse the accessibility features included in Android for deep access to the operating system.
When you install any application that includes this malicious software, it intelligently steals passwords for more than 200 banking and encryption applications. Examples of these applications are HSBC or Coinbase and paypal or capitalone, and intercepts Text Message Codes for use in the two-factor authentication function.
Malicious software confuses security researchers
Cybereason researchers have said that event bot software is still in the development stage. It was discovered last March and the researchers saw that the malware repeatedly evolved every few days to include harmful new features, as its developers improved the encryption system used to communicate with the server, as well as They have introduced a new feature that can obtain the user device lock code. The malware has confused security researchers about who is behind this campaign, especially since it is brand new and their advice was to avoid unreliable apps from third party websites and stores, and each app should be closed separately with a password and check the powers before and after downloading the app and don’t install apps from Outside the official store, and don’t click on links you don’t know about.
