{"id":41205,"date":"2021-06-04T12:34:13","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T12:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/android-banking-malware-sharply-increased-in-the-first-chunk-of-2021-reckons-eset\/"},"modified":"2021-06-04T12:34:13","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T12:34:13","slug":"android-banking-malware-sharply-increased-in-the-first-chunk-of-2021-reckons-eset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/android-banking-malware-sharply-increased-in-the-first-chunk-of-2021-reckons-eset\/","title":{"rendered":"Android banking malware sharply increased in the first chunk of 2021, reckons ESET"},"content":{"rendered":"

While enterprises stagger under sustained ransomware attacks, Android users are increasingly being targeted by banking malware, with Slovakian infosec firm ESET reckoning it had seen a 159 per cent increase in such malicious software over the last few months.<\/p>\n

Even though banking malware aimed at users of the Google mobile OS sharply increased in popularity overall mobile threat detections on the Google-owned operating system declined by 18.8 per cent quarter-on-quarter, said ESET.<\/p>\n

\u201cAndroid Banking Malware has continued to grow substantially, during T1* 2021 by 158.7 per cent. On our top 10 list, Android Banking Malware is represented by Android\/TrojanDropper.Agent trojan (26.4 per cent), which was the most widespread Android threat overall in T1, and by Android\/Spy.Banker trojan (but at only 2.0 per cent),\u201d said the company in a report published today.<\/p>\n