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Anthony Spadafora

Hackers are posing as job recruiters to spread a dangerous banking trojan and steal your money — don’t fall for this

A picture depicting how banking trojans steal credit card data.

Looking for a new job is already a difficult process on its own, but now hackers want to make things even harder for prospective job seekers by infecting their phones with a banking trojan designed to target any financial apps and services they have installed on their device.

As reported by The Hacker News, cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new mobile phishing campaign used to distribute an updated version of the Antidot banking trojan. Codenamed AppLite Banker by the mobile security company Zimperium who first spotted this new campaign, this malware can steal a victim’s PIN in order to remotely take over their smartphone.

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