Security News > 2017 > November > BankBot Returns On Play Store – A Never Ending Android Malware Story
2017-11-20 09:13
Even after so many efforts by Google for making its Play Store away from malware, shady apps somehow managed to fool its anti-malware protections and infect people with malicious software. A team of researchers from several security firms has uncovered two new malware campaigns targeting Google Play Store users, of which one spreads a new version of BankBot, a persistent family of banking
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