A very dangerous banking trojan dubbed TeaBot is back in the limelight for all the wrong reasons, infecting over 10,000 Android users via an innocent-looking app.
As you can imagine, that common and very easy-to-mistake title was part of the ploy devised by"QR BarCode Scanner Business LLC", which is unsurprisingly not a real company either.
For what it's worth, the app never crossed the 50,000 install barrier, but the 10,000+ users who did download it may want to get in touch with their bank as soon as possible, check their recent financial statements for fishy transactions, and change their passwords and other login credentials.Dubbed TeaBot, the trojan found hiding inside this app is believed to be targeting banks in the US and Hong Kong in addition to Europe, as well as cryptocurrency wallets and exchange services.
While we don't want you to get too scared and end up stashing all your money under your mattress, you might not be completely safe from this threat even if you use two-factor authentication for all your home and mobile banking operations. That's because TeaBot can gain unauthorized access to your text messages and 2FA codes as well once it breaks into your phone via a fake update to an app like"QR Code & Barcode - Scanner." And that, our friends, is why you should generally stick to the most downloaded Google Play titles across categories like"productivity" or"tools."
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