New Perseus Android Banking Malware Monitors Notes Apps to Extract Sensitive Data

Overview

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a new Android malware family called Perseus that's being actively distributed in the wild with an aim to conduct device takeover (DTO) and financial fraud. Perseus is built upon the foundations of Cerberus and Phoenix, at the same time evolving into a "more flexible and capable platform" for compromising Android devices through dropper apps distributed

Organisations Involved

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• New Perseus Android Banking Malware Monitors Notes Apps to Extract Sensitive Data — thehackernews

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