Flubot is dead, and the new evil is detected and crowned, the first of his name – MaliBot. Well, in fact this new MaliBot is a revised follower of another Android banking trojan – S.O.V.A. MaliBot malware, usually disguised as a cryptocurrency mining application, targets Android devices and uses overlay attacks to outfox MFA/2FA, capture messages and SMS, and steal banking and crypto credentials.
By this moment, it has mainly threatened financial sector companies in Spain and Italy. Obviously, it has an ominous ambition and surely still untapped potential to infuse into other industries and conquer new territories.
In this article we will tell in more detail what techniques exist against such attacks, and give you a live demonstration of how
Group-IB Fraud Protection stops MaliBot or other similar threats.