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Anthony Spadafora

This dangerous banking trojan now uses scheduled maintenance to hide its malicious activities — don’t fall for this

A picture of a skull and bones on a smartphone depicting malware.

Even if you stick to official app stores, you could end up downloading a malicious app, which is exactly what happened to 50,000 Android users who accidentally installed a dangerous banking trojan on their devices.

As reported by BleepingComputer, the Anatsa banking trojan is back as part of a new campaign that uses a malicious app posing as a PDF viewer to infect unsuspecting users of the best Android phones.

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