Godfather Android Trojan targets hundreds of banking and crypto apps
finextra.comCybercrooks are using Godfather to target users of banking and crypto exchange apps in 16 countries, says Group-IB.The Trojan tricks victims thanks to its ability to generate convincing web fakes and overlay them on the screens of infected devices when a user tries to open a targeted app.
Criminals can then steal victims’ login credentials and bypass two-factor authentication in order to gain access to accounts and drain their funds.As of October, 215 banks, 94 crypto wallet providers, and 110 crypto exchange platforms - in countries including the US, UK, Canada and Turkey - had been targeted by Godfather.Group-IB found that code in the Trojan that stops it from attacking users who speak Russian or on of a number of languages used in the former Soviet Union.
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