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     Asacub is another Trojan malware, which criminals want to gain power over our portfolio
 

publication: 01/20/2016

Update: 01.20.2016, 14:52

Asacub is malware that targets users of Android. The objective of its creators is simple, is it our wallets.

Year by year the number of people using their smartforny to pay for goods and services. This fact has not escaped the attention of criminals, who have recently intensified their efforts on the development of financial resources for malicious programs for mobile devices. At this time, for the first time in the history of mobile banking Trojan came to the statement of the ten most common malicious programs that target finances.

One of them is Asacub. Discovered in June 2015. Malware capable of stealing a list of contacts, browser history and information about installed applications, as well as send SMS messages to certain numbers and block infected device screen which, as experts note, is the standard set of functions Trojan stealing information. Since that time, the software had time to evolve and now, as indicated by the Kaspersky Lab experts, the Trojan has gained new features allowing it to steal your money. The new version is equipped with a hand phishing site impersonating log on to banking applications.

– observing contemporary trends, we can assume that in 2016. malware mobile banking will continue to be increasingly developed and disseminated, acting even greater part in attacks using malware. Users must be particularly vigilant to avoid becoming the next victim – warns Roman Unuchek, a senior malware analyst at Kaspersky Lab.

Source: ekonomia.rp.pl

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