Simple but extremely effective: Inside the world's most prolific mobile banking malware

Asacub trojan has quietly been going about its business for years, stealing funds from hundreds of thousands of victims - but it can also be easily avoided.
 
29th August, 2018 By Danny Palmer
 
Asacub is one of the world's most successful mobile banking trojans, responsible for stealing funds from hundreds of thousands of users worldwide. But how did this unremarkable piece of malware become so prolific?
 
While Asacub initially started life as a form of spyware in the first half of 2015, by the start of the following year, the malware had shifted to stealing funds and banking information - and has kept that focus ever since.
 
It proved to be a smart move for the attackers, because by the middle of 2017 Asacub had risen to become the most prolific form of mobile banking trojan in the world, outperforming other prominent forms of banking malware, including Svpeng and Faketoken, in terms of sheer number of attacks.
 
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