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Please introduce links to this page from ; try the Find link tool for suggestions. ( August 2024 ) Cerberus is a trojan horse targeting Android mobile phone banking credentials.
It can be covertly installed on mobile phones (and other devices) running most [3] versions of iOS and Android. The spyware is named after the mythical winged horse Pegasus—it is a Trojan horse that can be sent "flying through the air" to infect phones. [4] Usages of the Pegasus spyware have been monitored for years.
Its functionality is similar to the iOS version, but the mode of attack is different. The Android version tries to gain root access (similar to jailbreaking in iOS); if it fails, it asks the user for permissions that enable it to harvest at least some data. At the time Google said that only a few Android devices had been infected. [38]
In August 2010, Kaspersky Lab reported the trojan Trojan-SMS.AndroidOS.FakePlayer.a. [7] This was the first SMS malware that affected Google's Android operating system, [8] and which sent SMS messages to premium rate numbers without the owner's knowledge, accumulating huge bills. [9]
Ghost Push is a family of malware that infects the Android OS by automatically gaining root access, downloading malicious and unwanted software. [1] [2] The malware appears to have been discovered in September 2015 by the security research lab at Cheetah Mobile, who subsequently developed diagnostic software to determine whether a device has been compromised. [3]
In computing, a Trojan horse (or simply Trojan) is a malware that misleads users of its true intent by disguising itself as a normal program. The term is derived from the ancient Greek story of the deceptive Trojan Horse that led to the fall of the city of Troy. [1] Trojans are generally spread by some form of social engineering.
Xafecopy Trojan is a malware software targeting the Android operating system, first identified in September 2017 by cybersecurity and antivirus provider Kaspersky Lab. According to Kaspersky Lab, Xafecopy infected at least 4,800 users within a month in approximately 47 countries. [ 1 ]
FluBot is a sophisticated SMS computer virus –specifically a banking Trojan– of global reach which aims to steal private data from Android smart phones.Unlike much malware, FluBot has proven exceptionally durable, coming in waves or "campaigns" with each redesign.