New Android Banking Trojan Emerges in Europe

A new trojan targeting Android was reported on Monday. The malware steals users' credentials and SMS messages to ease fraudulent activities against banks in Spain, Germany, Italy, Belgium, and the Netherlands.   The malware, dubbed "TeaBot" (or Anatsa), is allegedly in its initial stages of development.   While TeaBot's activity was known from January, more malicious attacks targeting financial apps started in late March 2021. More serious attacks targeted banks from Belgium and Netherlands in the first week of May.   Cleafy, the Italian cybersecurity, and online fraud prevention firm stated that "The main goal of TeaBot is stealing victim's credentials and SMS messages for enabling frauds scenarios against a predefined list of banks,"  "Once TeaBot is successfully installed in the victim's device, attackers can obtain a live streaming of the device screen (on demand) and also interact with it via Accessibilit...