People using Android phones may be at risk from the Anatsa Banking Trojan. That's because it has been updated with some new functions, making some banking applications hit.
According to some reports, many people claimed to have suffered from this malware, which can target their accounts logged into the cell phone, and so far, cases have been observed in Switzerland, UK, USA, Austria and Germany.
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If you want to understand better about it, how to stay protected and much more, follow the information we brought below!
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Many large and well-known banks can be targets of Anatas, a banking trojan that is threatening mainly people using cell phones with the Android system.
The most current version of the Anatsa banking trojan was seen to be used, and this detection was made by security researchers. They stated that more than 600 banking apps can be targeted in different ways, causing some fraud to be seen on affected devices.
The hackers who are using this Anatsa are using applications that are in the Google Play Store, and with that, Android applications are in a state of vulnerability.
How dangerous is that?
Once Anatsa is installed on the phones, it can access a lot of information from your bank like account credentials, credit card data, payment data and so on.
This data can be accessed through overlays, that is, more than 600 bank applications that, once installed, they can offer this access so that the information can be hacked in a way illegitimate.
ANATSA uses this information not to save it and use it later, but to defraud the device itself, accessing the user's banking applications and making transactions as if it were the victim.
This way, hackers can gain access to your account values as soon as possible, and often you don't even notice that these transactions were carried out.
How to delete the apps at risk?
According to experts, there are some applications that are used by hackers to access the bank accounts of Android phone users.
Therefore, if you have any of these applications on the list, the ideal thing is to delete them. Check the list of apps:
- PDF Reader – Edit & View PDF -lsstudio.pdfreader.powerfultool.allinonepdf.goodpdftools
- PDF Reader & Editor – com.proderstarler.pdfsignature
- PDF Reader & Editor – moh.filemanagerrespdf
- All Document Reader & Editor – com.mikijaki.documents.pdfreader.xlsx.csv.ppt.docs
- All Document Reader and Viewer – com.muchlensoka.pdfcreator
It is important that you not only uninstall these applications, but manually delete them from your device, so that you do not run any risk of having your information accessed by third parties.