Cybercriminals are distributing a mobile component of the Zeus banking Trojan as an Android security application, Kaspersky experts said
A recently discovered fake Android security application is most likely a mobile component of the Zeus banking malware,
security researchers from antivirus firm Kaspersky Lab said on Monday.
Called Android Security Suite Premium, the rogue app is capable of stealing SMS messages and uploading them to a remote server. When launched, the app displays a shield image that has long been associated with Windows fake antivirus programs, also known as FakeAV or scareware.
"How could I ever forget such an identifiable logo," Nathan Collier, a threat research analyst at antivirus firm Webroot, said in a
blog post about the new threat on Friday. "Now that the developers of the popular FakeAV malware have entered into the mobile world expect to to see a lot more variations of this."
However, this might not be a mobile scareware app, but a new variant of ZitMo -- Zeus in the Mobile, said Kaspersky Lab senior malware analyst Denis Maslennikov.
ZitMo apps are malicious mobile applications that are used by cybercriminals in conjunction with the Zeus computer Trojan in order to steal money from online banking accounts. They appeared back in 2010 as a response to banks implementing mobile-based security measures
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