Bogus finance apps on Google Play target users worldwide

  • 19 September 2018
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September 19th, 2018 By Zeljka Zorz
 
ESET researchers have discovered malicious apps impersonating various financial services and the Austrian cryptocurrency exchange Bitpanda on Google Play.
 

The fake apps

 
Uploaded to Google’s official app store in June 2018 and collectively downloaded and installed over a thousand times, upon launch the apps would immediately request the user to enter credit card details and/or login credentials to the targeted bank or service.
 
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