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android It has an extremely important alert for hundreds of millions of phones worldwide, and that is because they are all in danger due to a very serious problem. Today’s alert for the Android operating system is related to one issued last week by the SRI, we are only talking about another Trojan, called EventBot, but its purpose is the same, to attack financial applications on people’s phones.
android This extremely dangerous malware is constantly developing during this period, being able to intercept SMS messages received from phones, implicitly the login codes for banking applications. This very dangerous Trojan for Android targets no less than 200 applications from banks, money transfer services or even digital wallets for cryptocurrencies, making it very complex.
Android: Important ALERT for Romanian phones
android It has applications from a variety of financial services, and this Trojan considers some of the most popular, including Revolut and Paypal, or TransferWise, the first two being widely used in Romania. With hundreds of apps run by EventBot, users with Android phones need to be very careful about what they install on their phones, especially since the hackers who created it continue to improve during this time.
“Researchers have discovered a new sophisticated Trojan, Android, that bypasses security measures and removes data from financial applications. First identified in March, the banking Trojan EventBot abuses Android’s accessibility features to collect financial data. and intercept SMS messages, allowing malware to bypass two-factor authentication. In addition to stealing financial data, the Trojan can also access system information, personal data, passwords, and keystrokes, all of which can be used to hijack transactions and other online accounts. “
android You don’t have any Google Play apps that contain this malware yet, so here is good news for users, but it has been hidden in apps like Microsoft Word, Adobe Flash Player, distributed in third-party stores. The Trojan can steal from Android, including personal data such as passwords stored on phones, can track everything we type on the virtual keyboard, and with them and a passcode for two-step authentication, hackers too they can log into financial applications.
android It is a free operating system, and this helps hackers to develop these Trojans, and since they are not distributed through the Google Play Store, Google cannot help us, so we must protect ourselves.
