{"id":188585,"date":"2024-05-03T10:41:18","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T15:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/android-malware-posing-as-a-fake-chrome-update-is-stealing-banking-app-logins"},"modified":"2024-05-03T10:41:18","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T15:41:18","slug":"android-malware-posing-as-a-fake-chrome-update-is-stealing-banking-app-logins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/android-malware-posing-as-a-fake-chrome-update-is-stealing-banking-app-logins","title":{"rendered":"Android malware posing as a fake Chrome update is stealing banking app logins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/android-malware-posing-as-a-fake-chrome-update-is-stealing-banking-app-logins2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some online scams are more conspicuous than others, but the most insidious can be especially tricky to spot. For instance, last week, cybersecurity firm <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.threatfabric.com\/blogs\/brokewell-do-not-go-broke-by-new-banking-malware\">ThreatFabric<\/a> uncovered a new Android malware family that cleverly disguises itself as a <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/chrome\/\">Google Chrome<\/a> update. Before you click a link claiming to provide updates for Chrome, be sure that it isn\u2019t fake.<\/p>\n<p>ThreatFabric analysts found the malware \u2014 which they dubbed Brokewell \u2014 on a fake browser update page designed to fool people into downloading a malicious app. If the page manages to fool you, you\u2019ll end up downloading <a href=\"https:\/\/bgr.com\/tech\/chameleon-malware-blocks-android-fingerprint-authentication-to-steal-your-pin\/\">seriously dangerous malware<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some online scams are more conspicuous than others, but the most insidious can be especially tricky to spot. For instance, last week, cybersecurity firm ThreatFabric uncovered a new Android malware family that cleverly disguises itself as a Google Chrome update. Before you click a link claiming to provide updates for Chrome, be sure that it [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,45,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188585","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\/188585","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=188585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}