{"id":137985,"date":"2022-04-11T12:24:29","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T17:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/android-banking-malware-takes-over-calls-to-customer-support"},"modified":"2022-04-11T12:24:29","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T17:24:29","slug":"android-banking-malware-takes-over-calls-to-customer-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/android-banking-malware-takes-over-calls-to-customer-support","title":{"rendered":"Android banking malware takes over calls to customer support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/android-banking-malware-takes-over-calls-to-customer-support2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A banking trojan for Android that researchers call Fakecalls comes with a powerful capability that enables it to take over calls to a bank\u2019s customer support number and connect the victim directly with the cybercriminals operating the malware.<\/p>\n<p>Disguised as a mobile app from a popular bank, Fakecalls displays all the marks of the entity it impersonates, including the official logo and the customer support number.<\/p>\n<p>When the victim tries to call the bank, the malware breaks the connection and shows its call screen, which is almost indistinguishable from the real one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A banking trojan for Android that researchers call Fakecalls comes with a powerful capability that enables it to take over calls to a bank\u2019s customer support number and connect the victim directly with the cybercriminals operating the malware. Disguised as a mobile app from a popular bank, Fakecalls displays all the marks of the entity [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,45,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-finance","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}