Dangerous Android banking trojan found lurking in malicious apps with 19 million installs

Even on official app stores, you need to be careful what you download. Case in point, 77 malicious apps with a combined total of 19 million installs were found spreading malware on the Google Play Store.

As reported by BleepingComputer, the malicious apps in question were discovered by Zscaler’s ThreatLabs team. At the time, its researchers were investigating a new campaign that uses the Anatsa banking trojan (also known as Tea Bot) to target vulnerable Android phones.

In addition to taking screenshots, intercepting and reading text messages, keylogging and device takeover, Anatsa is also able to impersonate banking and finance apps by using overlay attacks. Just last year, the trojan was able to impersonate over 600 popular apps. Now though, that number has jumped to 831 banking and fin