{"id":150031,"date":"2022-11-13T03:22:19","date_gmt":"2022-11-13T09:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/malicious-google-play-store-app-spotted-distributing-xenomorph-banking-trojan"},"modified":"2022-11-13T03:22:19","modified_gmt":"2022-11-13T09:22:19","slug":"malicious-google-play-store-app-spotted-distributing-xenomorph-banking-trojan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/malicious-google-play-store-app-spotted-distributing-xenomorph-banking-trojan","title":{"rendered":"Malicious Google Play Store App Spotted Distributing Xenomorph Banking Trojan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/malicious-google-play-store-app-spotted-distributing-xenomorph-banking-trojan2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google has removed two new malicious dropper apps that have been detected on the Play Store for Android, one of which posed as a lifestyle app and was caught distributing the Xenomorph banking malware.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cXenomorph is a trojan that steals credentials from banking applications on users\u2019 devices,\u201d Zscaler ThreatLabz researchers Himanshu Sharma and Viral Gandhi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zscaler.com\/blogs\/security-research\/rise-banking-trojan-dropper-google-play-0\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> in an analysis published Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is also capable of intercepting users\u2019 SMS messages and notifications, enabling it to steal one-time passwords and multi-factor authentication requests.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has removed two new malicious dropper apps that have been detected on the Play Store for Android, one of which posed as a lifestyle app and was caught distributing the Xenomorph banking malware. \u201cXenomorph is a trojan that steals credentials from banking applications on users\u2019 devices,\u201d Zscaler ThreatLabz researchers Himanshu Sharma and Viral Gandhi [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,45,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-finance","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150031","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}