With the developing mobile world, all our important data has been moved to smart phones. However, this situation causes cyber attackers to appear more often. Today, especially application stores are overflowing with applications that contain trojans that capture user data.
A new one has been added to these. An application has been detected in the Google Play Store, which contains trojans and seizes important data, including bank information, in ways that will make you give up.
Trojan that seizes bank information on Android devices: Octo
Netherlands-based security firm ThreatFabric announced that they have detected an application with a banking trojan called Octo, which has been downloaded more than 50,000 on the Google Play Store. Although the application called Fast Cleaner seems to clean the devices, it secretly captures user data in the background.
Octo trojan provides remote access to cyber attackers on devices. In this way, a malicious person can perform the desired action as if he had come and picked up the phone. It can transmit passwords to hackers instantly via keylogger.
The trojan’s way of capturing user data is almost giving up. At this point, the malware secretly hijacks users’ data by minimizing the screen brightness of the smartphone and disabling notifications. In this way, people do not have any doubts.
Fast Cleaner with Octo trojan, which can remotely access sensitive information including bank accounts, has been removed from Google Play Store. However, the danger still continues for users who have downloaded the application to their devices before. For this reason, ThreatFabric recommends that the application in question be removed from the devices immediately.
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