Wednesday, January 15

Tag: PixPirate

This tricky Android malware has a brand new method to prevent being found

This tricky Android malware has a brand new method to prevent being found

Technology
(Image credit: Future) Cybersecurity scientists have actually discovered a brand-new variation of a widely known Android banking trojan malware which sports rather an imaginative approach of concealing in plain sight.PixPirate targets mainly Brazilian customers with accounts on the Pix immediate payment platform, which apparently counts more than 140 million clients, and services deals north of $250 billion.The project's objective was to divert the money to attacker-owned accounts. Normally, banking trojans on Android would attempt to conceal by altering their app icons and names. Frequently, the trojans would presume the "settings" icon, or something comparable, fooling the victims into looking somewhere else, or merely into being too scared to get rid of the app from their gadg...