{"id":153346,"date":"2022-12-21T05:22:44","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T11:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/godfather-android-malware-targets-400-banks-crypto-exchanges"},"modified":"2022-12-21T05:22:44","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T11:22:44","slug":"godfather-android-malware-targets-400-banks-crypto-exchanges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/godfather-android-malware-targets-400-banks-crypto-exchanges","title":{"rendered":"GodFather Android malware targets 400 banks, crypto exchanges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/godfather-android-malware-targets-400-banks-crypto-exchanges2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An Android banking malware named \u2018Godfather\u2019 has been targeting users in 16 countries, attempting to steal account credentials for over 400 online banking sites and cryptocurrency exchanges.<\/p>\n<p>The malware generates login screens overlaid on top of the banking and crypto exchange apps\u2019 login forms when victims attempt to log in to the site, tricking the user into entering their credentials on well-crafted HTML phishing pages.<\/p>\n<p>The Godfather trojan was discovered by Group-IB analysts, who believe it is the successor of Anubis, a once widely-used banking trojan that gradually fell out of use due to its inability to bypass newer Android defenses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Android banking malware named \u2018Godfather\u2019 has been targeting users in 16 countries, attempting to steal account credentials for over 400 online banking sites and cryptocurrency exchanges. The malware generates login screens overlaid on top of the banking and crypto exchange apps\u2019 login forms when victims attempt to log in to the site, tricking the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1761,34,45,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cryptocurrencies","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-finance","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153346","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=153346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}