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Asacub Hybrid Banking-Spyware Trojan Skyrockets in Usage - InfoSecurity

January 20, 2016

Asacub Hybrid Banking-Spyware Trojan Skyrockets in Usage - InfoSecurity

InfoSecurity, January 20, 2016
The Kaspersky Lab Anti-Malware Research team has discovered a spike in the use of Asacub, a malware that targets Android users for financial gain. Asacub had not been detected by systems until the end of 2015, but now within just one week, Kaspersky Lab has identified more than 6,500 attempts to infect users. That makes it one of the five most popular mobile Trojans, and the most popular Trojan-banker to date. Experts discovered several new versions of the Asacub Trojan, showing that it had transformed into a tool for stealing money.

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Asacub Hybrid Banking-Spyware Trojan Skyrockets in Usage - InfoSecurity

Asacub Hybrid Banking-Spyware Trojan Skyrockets in Usage - InfoSecurity
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