users of mobile platforms Android, Symbian and BlackBerry using their cell phones to access banking services should beware of a new mobile virus. The research lab ESET, digital security company, has identified a trojan on smartphones with a focus on banking information from Europe and Asia, and can spread to other countries like Brazil, where access to accounts via cell phone is common.
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File Win32/Spy.Hesperbot was detected recently in August. The sophisticated threat is a function of keylogger aimed to capture images and videos of start screens of the device, and configure a new proxy remote. Another function enables remote connections are created to secretly infect systems where they are lodged.
Users from countries like Turkey, Czech Republic, United Kingdom and Portugal have been contaminated with the application, which spreads by e-mail. The goal is to obtain information cybercriminals account and password of the victims to perform illegal financial transactions.
“The analysis revealed that we were dealing with a banking trojan, with similar functionality and identical goals of Zeus and SpyEye, but significant differences in implementation indicate that this is a new family of malware, not a variant of a known trojan “explains Robert Lipovsky, researcher at ESET.
Responsible for identifying malware, ESET now offers protection for this type of infection in your applications ESET Smart Security and ESET Mobile Security. To avoid this or any other contamination on your mobile device, the recommendation is simple: as in Windows PCs, keep it protected with a good antivirus.
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