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New Xenomorph Android malware targets more than 50 banking and financial applications.
Figure B. The Alien malware has more overall capabilities than Xenomorph, which is far more targeted at stealing banking information.
One could think that the developer of Alien decided to create a more specific malware that would focus on financial theft only.
As a matter of fact, more functions are already implemented in the code, but not yet used: Extensive logging capabilities might be used in the future and allow the malware to collect a lot more information on the usage of the device and its user.
In order to achieve the overlay attack, Xenomorph's code contains a list of banking or financial applications that will trigger the overlay screen from the malware.
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