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New Android Malware Steals Banking PINs and Relays Data Through Someone Else’s Infected Phones

A newly discovered Android malware family named Manic combines banking fraud with full-scale spyware, and it comes with a trick researchers rarely see in the wild: when an infected phone has no internet connection of its own, it can quietly borrow one from another infected device nearby. The malware was identified by ThreatFabric’s Mobile Threat […] The post New Android Malware Steals Banking PINs and Relays Data Through Someone Else’s Infected Phones appeared first on Cyber Security News.
A newly discovered Android malware family named Manic combines banking fraud with full-scale spyware, and it comes with a trick researchers rarely see in the wild: when an infected phone has no internet connection of its own, it can quietly borrow one from another infected device nearby. The malware was identified by ThreatFabric’s Mobile Threat Intelligence team, which…
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