Alert: These Malicious Android Apps can hack your Banking App

Malicious Android Apps: According to Check Point Research (CPR), the hackers have created two programs called Clast82 and Alienbot banker. With the help of these new virus programs, 8 hacking apps have been activated and they are attacking the backing app, which is being used in the users’ fence and they are being used to steal money from the bank account.

If you are an Android user then this news very important for you. Google has identified 10 such apps and removed them from the play store. It was very unsafe for those users.  We also keep and use a backing app on our phones. According to this checkpoint Research (CPR), the hackers have prepared two programs named Clast82 and Alienbot banker. With the help of these new virus programs, 8 hacking apps have been activated, they are attacking the banking app that is in the minds of the users and they are being used to steal money from the bank account. 

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With the help of Malwares, they are hacking the verification coming in your phone, so that you are getting money from your account without knowing it. The malware installs MRST in your phone and gives permission for remote access to your phone. After this, a person sitting far away from your phone can use it on the remote. 

It is being told that Clast82 is a Malware Dropper, first attacks your phone, after which Alienbot banker steals all important information by attacking within the finance application in the phone. This Dropper is also found in some very common apps which include Cake VPN, Pacific VPN, BeatPlayer, QR / Barcode Scanner MAX, and QRecorder.

What is malware?

It is malicious software as the name specifies that it is a type of trojan software.

How to be kept safe your Andriod phone from these Malicious Android Apps?

1. Keep only those Andriod apps on your phone, which is useful for you.
2. Don’t give your phone to your children in which your banking application installed.
3. Delete those apps from your phone which you are not using anymore.
4. Don’t open any unknown link or message, you received on your phone.