Security News > 2022 > January > New FluBot and TeaBot campaigns target Android devices worldwide
New FluBot and TeaBot malware distribution campaigns have been spotted, using typical smishing lures or laced apps against Android users in Australia, Germany, Poland, Spain, and Romania.
TeaBot is a different Android banking trojan discovered in January 2021 and has a global reach.
The app retrieved its configuration for all other victims and fetched an APK from a GitHub repository, which contained a TeaBot variant.
Between December 6, 2021, and January 17, 2022, Bitdefender analysts have counted 17 different versions of TeaBot infecting devices through the listed apps.
The TeaBot campaign illustrates that even when installing software from the Google Play Store, it does not mean that you will always be safe.
Remember, this is not the first time that TeaBot has managed to infiltrate the Play Store through laced apps, and it's unlikely it'll be the last one.