Android users are targeted in a phishing campaign that will infect their devices with the Anubis banking Trojan that can steal financial information from more than 250 banking and shopping applications.
The campaign uses a devious method to get the potential victims to install the malware on their devices: it asks them to enable Google Play Protect while actually disabling it after being granted permissions on the device.
Phishing Attack Disables Google Play Protect, Drops Anubis Trojan – Android users are targeted in a phishing campaign that will infect their devices with the Anubis banking Trojan that can steal financial information from more than 250 banking and shoppi… https://t.co/XXf2LTQzW2
— G & R Computers (@GRComputers) February 6, 2020
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