{"id":200966,"date":"2024-12-07T15:23:45","date_gmt":"2024-12-07T21:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/hackers-infect-8000000-smartphones-as-spyloan-drains-bank-accounts-steals-sensitive-data-for-extortion-mcafee-alert"},"modified":"2024-12-07T15:23:45","modified_gmt":"2024-12-07T21:23:45","slug":"hackers-infect-8000000-smartphones-as-spyloan-drains-bank-accounts-steals-sensitive-data-for-extortion-mcafee-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/hackers-infect-8000000-smartphones-as-spyloan-drains-bank-accounts-steals-sensitive-data-for-extortion-mcafee-alert","title":{"rendered":"Hackers Infect 8,000,000 Smartphones As \u2018SpyLoan\u2019 Drains Bank Accounts, Steals Sensitive Data for Extortion: McAfee Alert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hackers-infect-8000000-smartphones-as-spyloan-drains-bank-accounts-steals-sensitive-data-for-extortion-mcafee-alert2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cybersecurity firm McAfee says it\u2019s identified a \u201csignificant global increase\u201d in a smartphone hack that triggers extortion, harassment and drains bank accounts.<\/p>\n<p>McAfee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/other-blogs\/mcafee-labs\/spyloan-a-global-threat-exploiting-social-engineering\/\">says<\/a> hackers are increasingly deploying a group of malicious financial apps containing \u201cSpyLoan\u201d malware, posing a serious threat with more than eight million active installations around the world.<\/p>\n<p>The apps are on Google Play and use the names, logos, brand colors and interfaces of well-known financial institutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cybersecurity firm McAfee says it\u2019s identified a \u201csignificant global increase\u201d in a smartphone hack that triggers extortion, harassment and drains bank accounts. McAfee says hackers are increasingly deploying a group of malicious financial apps containing \u201cSpyLoan\u201d malware, posing a serious threat with more than eight million active installations around the world. The apps are on [\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-200966","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\/200966","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=200966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}