Especialistas descobriram malware Xenomorph na Google Play Store

ThreatFabric experts ter descoberto a new Xenomorph banking Trojan on the Google Play Store (the official Android app store) that attacks users from Spain, Portugal, Italy and Belgium.

The researchers describe the malware as a classic banker that infects Android devices, requests the rights to use the Accessibility service, and then uses them to display fake login screens, overlaying them on top of real banking applications.

Atualmente, descoberto em janeiro can display such overlays for 56 banks in Spain, Portugal, Italy and Belgium, assim como 12 cryptocurrency wallets and 7 email apps.

além do que, além do mais, the malware collects other data about the device and transfers everything received to the cybercriminals’ control servers. The collected data is later used to access bank accounts and steal funds. If accounts are protected by two-factor authentication, Xenomorph is able to intercept SMS notifications and extract the necessary codes from them.

Contudo, the most annoying thing in this situation is that Xenomorph is distributed through malicious applications in the onde posou como um leitor de código QR and is delivered as a payload during the second stage of infection.

Até aqui, experts have found only one application distributing Xenomorph – Limpador Rápido, which was installed on more than 50,000 devices before being removed from the Google Play Store. The application contained the Gymdrop dropper, which successfully passed all Google checks, and after downloading to the victim’s device, it downloaded and installed more powerful malware – descoberto em janeiro.

Although analysts write that Xenomorph is still at the development stage, but it already poses a serious threat, from which and new attacks can definitely be expected in the future. além disso, there is an example of even more sly thing – fake VulkanRT library Volexity pesquisadores de segurança cibernética, that in fact contain rootkit.

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