Internet users are always more than attentive to possible scams that they may suffer for different reasons, or also due to harmful files that can enter your devices when you download certain apps. What they don’t know is that those applications are also capable of stealing information about their bank accounts in the United States.
That is why, usually, what one does to ensure that one does not suffer any type of cyber damage is go – in the case of Android – to install applications directly from the Google Play Store sitewhich convey more security and are not usually affected by these types of scams.
In any case, you should never relax. As reported by the Zscaler ThreatLabz site, There are more than 90 malicious applications in the aforementioned store, which have obtained more than 5,500,000 downloadsa fairly large figure considering that it is -theoretically- the most secure site on Google.
How could it be otherwise, this installed a general fear in userswho now do not know if they ever installed one of those malicious applications: They can steal banking information from hundreds of financial applications not only in the United States.but also from around the world.
It is a malware (malicious software) called Anatsaor also known as TeaBot, which seeks to deceive the user until the application is installedand then, through the use of overlay and accessibility techniques, collect different personal data and confidential banking credentialsWith all of that implies.
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According to the analysis carried out by the Zscaler Blog, These malicious applications tend to scam users who frequently read PDF files and those who use the QR code reader system.which “act as loaders to deploy the Anatsa Android malware.”
Generally, according to what the blog indicates, malware impersonates applications specialized in editing, file management, translation or other functions that can be useful to users and through which scammers manage to capture the attention of their victims.
At the time of being installed, the application that contains the Anatsa malware is not identified as a dangerous element by the device, and once it is found on it, starts downloading malicious code that disguises itself as a harmless updaterun-of-the-mill application.
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