New Android Malware Targets 12 Indian Banking Apps and Stealing Login Information: Quick Heal

Quick Heal Security Labs recently detected an Android Trojan Banking which explicitly targets banking apps. As per the report, this new Android malware targets 232 banking apps across the world, and the list includes 12 Indian banking apps from top-tier banks. The malware is known as Android.banker.A2f8a (Previously detected as Android.banker.A9480) as per Quick Heal.

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“Like most other Android banking malware, even this one is designed for stealing login credentials, hijacking SMSs, uploading contact lists and SMSs on a malicious server, displaying an overlay screen (to capture details) on top of legitimate apps and carrying out other such malicious activities,” said Quick Heal in the report.

The malware Android.banker.A2f8a is being distributed through a fake Flash Player app on third-party stores. Once if the user installs the malicious app, it will keep on asking the user to activate admin rights. “And even if the user denies the request or kills the process, the app will keep throwing continuous pop-ups until the user activates the admin privilege. Once this is done, the malicious app hides its icon soon after the user taps on it,” the report added.

Once if the user grants admin rights to the application, the application carries out malicious tasks in the background. If it founds out any of the banking application out of the 232 apps installed on the smartphone, it will throw a fake login page by which it steals the login information.