Other Play Store apps ThreatFabric highlighted include Tinder, Reddit, WhatsApp, Skype, Grindr, Gmail, Pinterest and the official Google Play apps for Movies, Music and Books content. Security experts at the Netherlands-based firm first discovered the malware in May. The malware is not entirely new, with most of the malicious code derived from the Xerxes banking malware, which is a variant of LokiBot.
In a blog post online about the threat, ThreatFabric said the source code for Xerxes was made public last year which usually causes a domino effect in the release of other malware variants. BlackRock, one of these variants, acts on one hand as a banking trojan that attacks financial as well as cryptocurrency apps.
It has been known to target apps of banks that operate in Europe, as well as in Australia, the US and Canada. The malware utilises a number of features that allow it to remain under the radar and successfully harvest personal information from an Android device. It is capable of stealing SMS messages, trawling through the files stored on your Android phone, as well as acting as a keylogger to capture sensitive information – like passwords, email data, and sensitive banking login credentials.
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