South Korean Android Banking Menace – FakeCalls

Research by: Bohdan Melnykov, Raman Ladutska

When malware actors want to enter the business, they can choose markets where their profit is almost guaranteed to be worth the effort – according to past results. The malware does not need to be high profile, just careful selection of the audience and the right market can be enough.

This “stay-low-aim-high” approach is what the Check Point Research team saw in our recent Android malware research. We encountered an Android Trojan named FakeCalls …

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