10 Most Prolific Banking Trojans Targeting Hundreds of Financial Apps with Over a Billion Users
Jun 06, 2022
10 of the most prolific mobile banking trojans have set their eyes on 639 financial applications that are available on the Google Play Store and have been cumulatively downloaded over 1.01 billion times. Some of the most targeted apps include Walmart-backed PhonePe, Binance, Cash App, Garanti BBVA Mobile, La Banque Postale, Ma Banque, Caf - Mon Compte, Postepay, and BBVA México. These apps alone account for more than 260 million downloads from the official app marketplace. Of the 639 apps tracked, 121 are based in the U.S., followed by the U.K. (55), Italy (43), Turkey (34), Australia (33), France (31), Spain (29), and Portugal (27). " TeaBot is targeting 410 of the 639 applications tracked," mobile security company Zimperium said in a new analysis of Android threats during the first half of 2022. " Octo targets 324 of the 639 applications tracked and is the only one targeting popular, non-financial applications for credential theft." Aside from TeaBot (