MaliBot is a new banking Trojan for Android

A new threat called MaliBot and that affects mobile devices. It affects countries like Spain and Italy, it can steal information of all kinds, especially bank information.

MaliBot, the malware that affects 

This new malware mainly targets online banking customers . This is something that is really very present today. It is common to have bank applications on the mobile, make payments from the phone itself, purchases, etc. This Trojan is known as MaliBot and it has many different functions.

It is capable of stealing credentials, cookies, bypassing two-step authentication codes, or exploiting Android’s accessibility service in order to control the victim’s screen. This allows you to be practically in control of the device and collect all kinds of personal data, passwords, etc.

How does this threat arrive? It mainly hides in a supposedly legitimate application. The victim installs that program, but is actually putting malware on the device . For example, it usually disguises itself as an application to mine cryptocurrencies, something quite widespread in recent times.

But in addition to this,droidjack is also capable of accessing the phone’s contacts. In this way, you can use Smishing to continue spreading this malware through SMS that you send to those contacts. Those messages will basically contain links that lead to the download of this malicious software.

MaliBot is using several Spanish banks to defraud the victim, such as Santander and CaixaBank. It is designed to steal two-factor authentication codes, as well as leak personal information. It is a type of threat that security researchers say is very versatile and can be used to steal all kinds of information.