Security News > 2021 > June > Android banking malware sharply increased in the first chunk of 2021, reckons ESET

While enterprises stagger under sustained ransomware attacks, Android users are increasingly being targeted by banking malware, with Slovakian infosec firm ESET reckoning it had seen a 159 per cent increase in such malicious software over the last few months.

Tongue in cheek, the firm added: "It is interesting to see a real-life example of what can cause Android users to suddenly become interested in cybersecurity protection!".

ESET also said it had seen Russia's FSB foreign intelligence spy agency, which the security shop tracks under the name Turla, running an espionage campaign on "a Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Eastern Europe".

"Despite being low profile in the last months, this shows that Turla still has its sights set on its regular targets, especially diplomats, and is expanding its malware arsenal," said ESET. The full report can be read via Eset's Welivesecurity blog.

Strangely, ESET has eschewed the global quarterly standard for breaking up the year into digestible chunks and now segments it into thirds of four months each.

This makes it difficult to accurately compare ESET research with other infosec companies' output, especially when it comes to trends.

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