Delete these five Android apps now before they spend all the money in your bank account،
By Yarn fabric, you need to remove five Android apps immediately if you have installed them on your Android phone. The apps have already been removed from the Google Play Store but will remain on your android phone if you downloaded them and never uninstalled the apps. These five apps contain a banking Trojan called Anatsa that was spotted in various countries, including the United States, last summer.
The problem with these apps is that once installed on your phone, an attacker can take control of your device without your knowledge. Not only can the attacker access your personal data, but they can also make payments from your banking apps. In other words, these applications, loaded with the Anatsa Trojan, can empty your bank account. The affected apps were downloaded between 150,000 and 200,000 times since November before being excluded from the Play Store by Google.
These apps, called dropper apps, are initially listed in the Play Store and contain additional malicious apps in their payloads. The dropper loads these apps on an infected handset. A previous campaign last year resulted in the Anatsa Trojan being used in the US, UK, Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The new campaign, targeting the UK, Germany, Spain, Slovakia, Slovenia and the Czech Republic, uses dropper apps designed to appear in the “Top New Free” categories of the Google Play Store.
Example of one of the dropper apps used with the Anatsa banking Trojan
Even scarier, since the last campaign, dropper apps have evolved to help evade detection through a “multi-step infection process” that helps them bypass security measures found in versions of Android up to Android 13.
The five apps you should look for on your phone include:
- Phone Cleaner – File Explorer
- PDF Viewer – File Explorer
- PDF Reader – Viewer and Editor
- Phone Cleaner: File Explorer
- PDF reader: file manager
If you have one of these apps on your android phone, it is imperative to uninstall them immediately. Additionally, if any of these five items appear on your android phoneYou may want to go through your bank statements with a fine-tooth comb to look for any suspicious activity.
How to avoid installing malicious apps? Always check reviews in the Play Store for red flags. Complaints about battery drain, slow phone operation, and heat to the touch are usually good warning signs. Additionally, you might see reviews from those who installed the app and find that it doesn't perform the task they installed it for.